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Re: Has anybody replaced pulseaudio with pipewire on Debian 11...

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Dan Ritter

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Jun 25, 2022, 7:00:06 AM6/25/22
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Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> I have to constantly "reinstall -- purge" the whole bluethooth/pulseaudio
> stack to make it work and I have tried all other tricks in the book.
>
> It looks like completely replacing pa with pipewire makes sense on Ubuntu. I
> wonder if anybody has anecdotal experience of nuking pulseaudio and
> installing pipewire on Debian Stable and if that makes things better with
> regards to bluetooth audio.

I did this on my desktop. However, I don't have any bluetooth audio devices,
so I can't comment on that.

The process was not difficult, and it did solve all of the pulseaudio
bugs that used to irritate me.

-dsr-

Vincent Lefevre

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Jun 26, 2022, 5:40:05 PM6/26/22
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On 2022-06-25 09:55:00 +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> I have some BT headphones (Anker Soundcore Q30) which work beautifully on
> Android devices but are an absolute pain on Debian 11.
>
> I have to constantly "reinstall -- purge" the whole bluethooth/pulseaudio
> stack to make it work and I have tried all other tricks in the book.
>
> It looks like completely replacing pa with pipewire makes sense on Ubuntu. I
> wonder if anybody has anecdotal experience of nuking pulseaudio and
> installing pipewire on Debian Stable and if that makes things better with
> regards to bluetooth audio.

Last year, pulseaudio was automatically replaced by pipewire for a few
days, and my BT headphones no longer worked correctly due to

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/issues/267

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