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Jospehty

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Registered: 2024-02-17

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[SOLVED] Audio permanently cuts off after a few seconds of no audio

I've noticed a bit of an odd bug on my current Plasma KDE installation.

The audio seems to not work on startup, switching to a different audio profile appears to fix the issue and I can play audio indefinitely, however once I stop playing audio the entire audio system turns off (applications can recognise this (spotify claims it cannot play, and youtube won't start videos)). It only seems to restart if I switch audio profiles or reinstall pulseaudio and immediately start playing audio again.

I've tried uninstalling pulseaudio and trying pipewire to no seeming effect. It's getting quite frustrating.

Last edited by Jospehty (2024-02-17 13:23:32)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Audio permanently cuts off after a few seconds of no audio

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Jospehty

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Re: [SOLVED] Audio permanently cuts off after a few seconds of no audio

Deepest apologies,

I had to have access to my computer early this morning, so I reinstalled Arch and I've popped over to GNOME now, and the audio works, I've marked the thread as solved.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Audio permanently cuts off after a few seconds of no audio

Absolutely nothing about plasma or gnome would exert that control over the audio, you likely had pulseaudio and wireplumber installed on the first try which leads to known conflicts.

Jospehty

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Re: [SOLVED] Audio permanently cuts off after a few seconds of no audio

Yes most probably, hence a full re-install.

I tried the troubleshooting on the Arch audio page and nothing there seemed to fix the issue.

What would you recommend if the issue re-appears in the sense of *completely* switching over from pulse-audio to pipewire, or resetting all config files and removing conflicting packages?

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Audio permanently cuts off after a few seconds of no audio

Install pipewire-pulse wireplumber and pipewire-alsa, that should logically resolve the possible conflicts here.

Otherwise instead of burning your house (system) down, post the outputs I requested before doing so should this reappear.

Last edited by V1del (2024-02-17 19:26:01)

Jospehty

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Re: [SOLVED] Audio permanently cuts off after a few seconds of no audio

I did the above thing ^ it did not appear to rectify the issue. If that's the main solution I'm happy to leave it here, just didn't want to leave a solved thread without a solution.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Audio permanently cuts off after a few seconds of no audio

Well since you rendered a proper investigation impossible by doing a reinstall, I'd simply suggest you leave it at that and come back should it return. The only thing I can guarantee you that this was definitely not a plasma issue and some other constellation on the system being incorrect.