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m0ss

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Registered: 2025-09-07

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[SOLVED] Pipewire-jack doesn't work

I recently got an audio interface for playing guitar and I'm trying to get it to work on Arch. The interface itself seems to work fine, but I'm having a problem with JACK/pipewire-jack. I've tried using Guitarix and Reaper but both complain about JACK not running. I'm using Pipewire with pipewire-jack installed.

The error I get when launching these programs is "can't find protocol 'PipeWire:Protocol:Native': Operation not supported".
Pw-jack is installed and I can call it from the terminal (e.g. "pw-jack guitarix"), but it doesn't change the outcome.
My system is freshly updated.

Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?

Last edited by m0ss (2025-09-07 21:23:33)

m0ss

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Re: [SOLVED] Pipewire-jack doesn't work

Also, when looking at qpwgraph, neither Guitarix nor Reaper are showing up at all.
Qjackctl thinks JACK is stopped, and trying to start JACK results in the same error mentioned above.

Last edited by m0ss (2025-09-07 20:09:24)

m0ss

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Re: [SOLVED] Pipewire-jack doesn't work

I solved it! Turns out the issue was missing/partial config files in ~/.config/pipewire.