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MegaMexican

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Registered: 2021-10-08

Posts: 29

[SOLVED] Audio Only Works When Switching Audio Device

When trying to play audio in any application, nothing will happen until I switch the Line Out Playback Profile in my KDE Audio Settings. It's not just that there won't be any sound, but the song/video won't even play until switching audio devices. This happens on multiple applications like Firefox, Spotify, and Discord. The issue came completely out nowhere, I did not update anything prior to this issue occurring, nor did I add any new peripherals, etc.

I have tried restarting pulseaudio with

systemctl --user start/stop pulseaudio.socket/service

to no avail.

The only other useful info I can think of providing is the pulseaudio debug output (after stopping pulseaudio.socket and pulseaudio.service), but it keeps getting stuck:

$ pulse -v
I: [pulseaudio] module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-surround-50 idle for too long, suspending ...
I: [alsa-sink-ALC1150 Analog] alsa-sink.c: Device suspended...
I: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Storing volume/mute for device+port sink:alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-surround-50:analog-output-lineout.
I: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Storing volume/mute for device+port sink:alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-surround-50:analog-output-lineout.
I: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Synced.

Other than that, I have no clue how to troubleshoot this. Any and all help is appreciated.

Last edited by MegaMexican (2022-05-12 23:29:14)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,285

Re: [SOLVED] Audio Only Works When Switching Audio Device

There was an update that replaced pipewire-media-session with wireplumber which breaks pulseaudio. If you want to stay on pulseaudio switch to pipewire-media-session again (which got reinstated as a reaction to those issues) or switch entirely to pipewire by replacing pulseaudio with pipewire-pulse

MegaMexican

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Registered: 2021-10-08

Posts: 29

Re: [SOLVED] Audio Only Works When Switching Audio Device

Yep, that worked. I installed pipewire-pulse and switched to using the pipewire-media-session session manager and we're good. Thanks!