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I've been setting up Pulse audio to play over my home network today, following the instructions outlined here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … er_network
When I boot the client computer everything works fine. I am able to see the sever computer in my pulsemixer and send audio to it without error.
The server is set with a zeroconf name.
The problem is: as soon as I open a browser window the networked audio connection disappears out of pulse mixer.
The issue is only present when using Brave browser. Firefox is fine.
I have no clue why this might be the case and am not sure exactly where to start on troubleshooting it.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Last edited by dcaspar (2021-01-04 18:35:01)
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Which variant of brave? IF https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brave-bin/ and it's dependency list is any indication it's only linked against alsa-lib which would mean you'd need to install pulseaudio-alsa for the ALSA -> pulse bridge. Though that should not screw with the pulse listing but maybe that redirection is an actual issue, any error messages in the pulse logs?
journalctl -b --user-unit=pulseaudio
Last edited by V1del (2021-01-04 18:31:21)
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The full output of the pulse log is such:
Jan 04 19:11:07 zero-X220i systemd[394]: Starting Sound Service...
Jan 04 19:11:07 zero-X220i pulseaudio[675]: Failed to find a working profile.
Jan 04 19:11:07 zero-X220i pulseaudio[675]: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="0" name="usb-Arturia_Arturia_KeyStep_32_00000000001A-00" card_name="alsa_card.usb-Arturia_Arturia_>
Jan 04 19:11:07 zero-X220i systemd[394]: Started Sound Service.
Jan 04 19:12:28 zero-X220i pulseaudio[675]: avahi_client_new() failed: An unexpected D-Bus error occurred
It looks like the unexpected D-Bus error is the issue?
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It is brave-bin. I installed pulseaudio-alsa and the issue persists.
The section pertaining to pulsaudio-alsa on the wiki says:
To prevent this, you will need to install the pulseaudio-alsa package. It contains the necessary /etc/asound.conf for configuring ALSA to use PulseAudio.
However, there is no file installed at /etc/asound.conf -- updatedb, locate didn't find an asound.conf file on my system either.
Last edited by dcaspar (2021-01-04 18:50:50)
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because it's now located at /etc/alsa/conf.d/99-pulseaudio-default.conf
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I'd also not put it past there being a bug with networked access and the stream information the ALSA -> pulse plugin can provide. To have a bit of a closer comparison, does it work with chromium?
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I think I might have narrowed this down.
It seems Brave (and Chrome) cause some kind of conflict with avahi-daemon.service, killing it upon launch.
Restarting the service once Brave is running and then restarting pulseaudio gets things up and running again, and they seem happy to coexist once Brave is open.
Last edited by dcaspar (2021-01-07 16:32:18)
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