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end3r-man

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Registered: 2023-12-25

Posts: 6

Pipewire Audio Crackling/Popping

im getting heavy cracking sound while playing songs tried the Noticeable audio delay or audible pop/crack when starting playback guide but still im getting cracking sound

    default.clock.quantum       = 4096
    default.clock.min-quantum   = 512
    default.clock.max-quantum   = 16384

added this to /etc/wireplumber config

monitor.alsa.rules = [
  {
    matches = [
      {
        # Matches all sources
        node.name = "~alsa_input.*"
      },
      {
        # Matches all sinks
        node.name = "~alsa_output.*"
      }
    ]
    actions = {
      update-props = {
        session.suspend-timeout-seconds = 0
      }
    }
  }
]

end3r-man

Member

Registered: 2023-12-25

Posts: 6

Re: Pipewire Audio Crackling/Popping

this is pw-top result

S   29      0      0    ---     ---   ---   ---     0                  Dummy-Driver
S   30      0      0    ---     ---   ---   ---     0                  Freewheel-Driver
S   49      0      0    ---     ---   ---   ---     0                  Midi-Bridge
S   52      0      0    ---     ---   ---   ---     0                  bluez_midi.server
R   55   2048  48000 105.7us  37.3us  0.00  0.00    0    S32LE 2 48000 alsa_output.pci-0000_12_00.6.analog-stereo
I   60   3600  48000  36.1us  23.7us  0.00  0.00    0    F32LE 2 48000  + Firefox
S   56      0      0    ---     ---   ---   ---     0                  alsa_input.pci-0000_12_00.6.analog-stereo

Last edited by end3r-man (2025-01-31 07:52:27)

end3r-man

Member

Registered: 2023-12-25

Posts: 6

Re: Pipewire Audio Crackling/Popping

im getting crack noise only when i start playing

Last edited by end3r-man (2025-01-31 08:18:06)

calmy

Member

From: Toledo, OH, USA

Registered: 2025-02-01

Posts: 1

Re: Pipewire Audio Crackling/Popping

I can help you. First, are you using an RT kernel like linux-rt or linux-xanmod-rt?

I have a system setup with wine64 / winepipewire.drv / wineASIO / fl studio 2024 / MATE desktop / pipewire-{jack/pulse} / qjackctl and I get 256smp (6ms) in fl studio

Secondly, run pw-play audiofile.mp3 where audiofile.mp3 is the audio file in mp3 format you want to test through pipewire. Does running this cause crackling?

There's multiple things you can do to fix this, it's just a question of what the causer is.

I'm completely unaware of how you set up your system already. Let's just try to follow things step by step, as I have been doing this Wine/FL Studio thing for about 8 years at least.

Lastly, I'm not a RTFM  (read the f-ing manual) guy because it was so hard for me to understand Linux From Scratch when I was 16 years old (I'm now 33) but here is the wiki page of Arch for pro audio.
I'm assuming you have already read it but if you haven't try and give some of the ideas a go. Here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Professional_audio

Last edited by calmy (2025-02-01 14:21:28)