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Ron

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Registered: 2018-04-22

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Thoughts on Pipewire

Read today that Mint 22 will be switching from Pulseaudio to Pipewire. That got me to wondering, does Pipewire have any of the same "baggage" as Pulseaudio? What is the consensus of the Devuan forum members concering Pipewire?

igorzwx

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Registered: 2024-05-06

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Re: Thoughts on Pipewire

Most important, it is easy to remove. Just another crap produced by the same sort of people.

I was asked to fix sound quality on Fedora without removing PipeWire.
Sound quality was so bad that it was impossible to use Discord.
First of all, I installed fftrate plugin and configured it for 32bit 192kHz.
The user was already satisfied with sound quality.
Then, I installed apulse and explained how to use it. This produced a sort of happiness.

Ron

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Re: Thoughts on Pipewire

Yeah, I noticed the company the creator works/worked for. Okay, so that's 0 👍 and 1 👎.

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: Thoughts on Pipewire

There are posts on the forum about pipewire, e.g. https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5867. I am using it on my travelling laptop. There it works ok for me.
Haven't converted my workstation yet, still works with pulse. Didn't get audio to work with pure ALSA.

Ron

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Re: Thoughts on Pipewire

Thanks for the link. Didn't see this thread. So I guess it's now 1 👍 and 1 👎.

igorzwx

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Re: Thoughts on Pipewire

Sorry to interrupt the voting procedure.

Didn't get audio to work with pure ALSA.

This seems to be the problem.

There is a belief that problems can be solved by voting. If it does not work, we may try something else.

Ron

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Re: Thoughts on Pipewire

I wouldn't call this voting. Just a way of keeping track of the "yeas" and "nays." And like I said in the first post, it is only something I was wondering about. I have no plans to switch. Alsa works just fine for me.

igorzwx

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Re: Thoughts on Pipewire

Yes, it is very interesting.

EDX-0

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Re: Thoughts on Pipewire

i do personally use pipewire and it works for what i do, which is using software that relies on pulse while using software that relies on jack, last i checked that was still a set of hoops to jump with pulse and jack, but since pipewire can provide the interfaces for both pulse and jack from the same daemon it is just a matter of simply running any DAW or plugboard and it just works.

aluma

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Registered: 2022-10-26

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Re: Thoughts on Pipewire

In my opinion, based on experience, everything is simple.
If you want to delve into the settings, we only try alsa with Firefox, it is the most capricious. If there is no sound, add a layer, pipeware or jack.

And if you are lazy, install pulseaudio, it will configure everything itself.
With the first two options, it is not a fact that new versions of programs will work.

Voting is pointless, there are too many different options for computer hardware, bios, proprietary firmware, etc.
The rest is purely a matter of personal tastes and preferences.

Last edited by aluma (2024-07-01 19:47:42)

kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

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Re: Thoughts on Pipewire

can someone please write a guide on "howto" do devuan with alsa-only?

had it done multiple times, but that was still debian 7, maybe 8, 
times have gotten bit more diversified,

now with devuan 5.0 this pc does sound cranky,
would love to have an alsa-only, as it sounded always cleaner to me.

igorzwx

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Re: Thoughts on Pipewire

can someone please write a guide on "howto" do devuan with alsa-only?

You may try something like this:

How to remove pulseaudio (and pipewire)
_https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=49837#p49837

ArchWiki ALSA
_https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#Unmuting_the_channels

How to configure a software mixer for ALSA
_https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6644

If it works, you may test sound quality with ALSA:
_https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6716
HiRes Binaural+ with ALSA
_https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6663

Last edited by igorzwx (2024-12-21 23:40:33)