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bakiu

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Registered: 2022-10-31

Posts: 2

PulseAudio bug , audio doesn't play

PulseAudio is having this weird bug with the latest update that it doesn't play any kind of audio.
If you go to (for example) youtube and try to play a video , it won't play , however if you turn off the audio , it starts playing regularly.
Also If you try to open spotify it will kick you with the "can't play this song right now" error.

I tried to play with pipewire and everything went fine. Which is why I tried to install pipewire-pulse to see if it fixes anything , but it didn't.
My rice is configured with pulseaudio so tweaking it back to pipewire wouldn't be that hard but I want to know if pulseaudio has this as a temporary bug or is it just something that pulseaudio gets every update. As well as, I am more used to pulseaudio tweaking etc, rather than pipewire, but if there is no other solution, I would gladly use pipewire.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,248

Re: PulseAudio bug , audio doesn't play

There has been no pulseaudio update in two months so "latest update" is pretty meaningless.

Since you're the first reporting such a thing, chances are you simply run into the usual logical conflict between wireplumber and pulseaudio. If you want to use pulseaudio, install pipewire-media-session instead of wireplumber or switch completely by installing pipewire-pulse. (note for a switch in either direction you'll need to reboot or do a bit of a service dance with the relevant user services)

Should that hunch be incorrect, reproduce the problematic situation and post

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
aplay -lL
pactl list cards
pactl list sinks
pactl list sink-inputs

in [code⁣][/⁣code] tags

Last edited by V1del (2023-05-16 07:10:50)