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IsItWashable

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Registered: 2021-10-12

Posts: 64

Having a lot of trouble trying to setup pipewire

Hello!

Running the command 'pactl info' shows that i am using "PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.66)"
I have "pipewire-audio, pipewire-pulse, pipewire-alsa and pipewire-jack" installed.
I am using a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface for audio.
I have followed all of the pipewire documentation on the arch linux wiki.

Yet i am still encountering problems.

Sometimes when turning on my computer and opening up Firefox. Videos sound like they have been put through a bitcrusher. sometimes this problem is fixed after rebooting, sometimes not. I pretty much just reboot until the problem goes away.
This usually happens if i have had Renoise running.

Not sure what else to say, I am very frustrated as i have heard that pipewire was simple to setup and was the solution to all of the issues that linux has had with audio in the past.
If you need more info please let me know.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,255

Re: Having a lot of trouble trying to setup pipewire

Find out whether it's a kernel or a pipewire problem first. Does the issue persist if you restart just pipewire/disable/bypass pipewire and try to play to the hardware directly with e.g. speaker-test -Dhw:0 -t wav -c2 (or similar check that hw:0 actually accesses the interface you want with e.g. aplay -l) any error messages in dmesg/journal?

During reproduction of the issue can you post in code tags

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
aplay -lL
pactl list cards
pactl list sinks
journalctl -b --user -u pipewire -u pipewire-pulse -u wireplumber

FWIW focusrites seem to come up often with various compat issues all over the stack, not sure why that is and whether focusrite does not implement some standards properly or is less lenient than other devices, FWIW there's also https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … ssues/2718 and https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … ssues/2995 which suggest there might be an issue probing the device with 48kHz in which case you could adjust pipewire/wireplumber config to always probe the device with 441kHz

IsItWashable

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Registered: 2021-10-12

Posts: 64

Re: Having a lot of trouble trying to setup pipewire

Thanks for posting this https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … ssues/2995

It is the exact issue i am having. Will set sample rate to 44100hz and see how it turns out.

Thank you!