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pookiewookie

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From: Wisconsin

Registered: 2025-03-15

Posts: 3

Microphone Constantly Acivated ruining sound quality

So, I have these Bluetooth headphones, when they are using the microphone, they lose quality, but as the title says my microphone is either constantly being requested from or i have a process running. I have no idea of what to fix. Other Operating Systems work fine. I dont have any windows on my screen running that use my microphone. Sorry for the bad formatting this is my first time using bbcode/arch forums
Model::Soundcore Life Q20

they lose bass when connected to AUX so dont ask about that.
fastfetch -c output

                                         miles@archlinux
                                         ---------------
                  -`                     OS: Arch Linux x86_64
                 .o+`                    Host: B650 GAMING X AX V2
                `ooo/                    Bios (UEFI): F33b (5.35)
               `+oooo:                   Bootmgr: UEFI OS - BOOTX64.EFI
              `+oooooo:                  Board: B650 GAMING X AX V2
              -+oooooo+:                 Chassis: Desktop
            `/:-:++oooo+:                Kernel: Linux 6.13.7-arch1-1
           `/++++/+++++++:               Init System: systemd 257.4-1-arch
          `/++++++++++++++:              Uptime: 24 mins
         `/+++ooooooooooooo/`            Loadavg: 0.79, 0.77, 0.65
        ./ooosssso++osssssso+`           Processes: 355
       .oossssso-````/ossssss+`          Packages: 1674 (pacman), 9 (flatpak)
      -osssssso.      :ssssssso.         Shell: fish 4.0.1
     :osssssss/        osssso+++.        Display (G272QPF E2): 2560x1440 @ 180 Hz in 27" [External]
    /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-        Brightness (G272QPF E2): 100% [Built-in]
  `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-      Monitor (G272QPF E2): 2560x1440 px @ 180 Hz - 600x340 mm (27.15 inc)
 `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:     LM: lemurs (Wayland)
`++:.                           `-/+/    WM: Hyprland 0.47.2 (Wayland)
.`                                 `/    Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2/3/4]
                                         Icons: breeze [GTK2/3/4]
                                         Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
                                         Cursor: Bibata-Original-Ice (24px)
                                         Terminal: kitty 0.39.1
                                         Terminal Font: Hack-Regular (11pt)
                                         Terminal Size: 109 columns x 73 rows (981px x 1314px)
                                         Terminal Theme: #CAD3F5 (FG) - #24273A (BG) [Dark]
                                         CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X (16) @ 5.58 GHz - 54.9°C
                                         CPU Cache (L1): 8x48.00 KiB (D), 8x32.00 KiB (I)
                                         CPU Cache (L2): 8x1.00 MiB (U)
                                         CPU Cache (L3): 32.00 MiB (U)
                                         CPU Usage: 2%
                                         GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE (80) @ 2.05 GHz - 58.0°C (780.66 MiB ]
                                         GPU 2: AMD Radeon Graphics (2) @ 2.20 GHz - 50.0°C [Integrated]
                                         Memory: 5.06 GiB / 30.46 GiB (17%)
                                         Swap: 0 B / 34.00 GiB (0%)
                                         Disk (/): 238.50 GiB / 441.87 GiB (54%) - ext4
                                         Media Player: Cider
                                         Media: Paramore - Pressure (Paused)
                                         Local IP (wlan0): 192.168.0.227/24,192.168.0.72/24 fe80::ee21:d5ea:>
                                         DNS: 1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1 192.168.0.1
                                         Locale: en_US.UTF-8
                                         Vulkan: 1.4.305 - radv [Mesa 25.0.1-arch1.2]
                                         OpenGL: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.0.1-arch1.2
                                         Users: miles - login time 2025-03-15 13:13:15
                                         Bluetooth: Soundcore Life Q20 (30%)
                                         Bluetooth Radio (archlinux): Bluetooth 5.3 (Unknown)
                                         Sound: Soundcore Life Q20 (80%)
                                         Mouse 1: BY Tech Gaming Keyboard Mouse
                                         Mouse 2: Compx 2.4G Wireless Receiver
                                         Keyboard 1: Compx 2.4G Wireless Receiver
                                         Keyboard 2: BY Tech Gaming Keyboard
                                         Network IO (wlan0): 1.63 KiB/s (IN) - 1.44 KiB/s (OUT)
                                         Disk IO (SHPP41-2000GM): 1.66 MiB/s (R) - 52.00 KiB/s (W)
                                         Disk IO (TSSTcorp CDDVDW SE-S084D): 0 B/s (R) - 0 B/s (W)
                                         Disk IO (USB DISK 3.0): 0 B/s (R) - 0 B/s (W)
                                         Physical Disk (SHPP41-2000GM): 1.82 TiB [SSD, Fixed] - 48.9°C
                                         Physical Disk (TSSTcorp CDDVDW SE-S084D): 1024.00 MiB [SSD, Removab]
                                         Physical Disk (USB DISK 3.0): 115.43 GiB [HDD, Removable]
                                         TPM: TPM 2.0 Device
                                         Version: fastfetch 2.38.0

pookiewookie

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From: Wisconsin

Registered: 2025-03-15

Posts: 3

Re: Microphone Constantly Acivated ruining sound quality

Journalctl -b --grep=audio output

Mar 15 13:13:15 archlinux systemd[1249]: Listening on PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 15 13:13:15 archlinux systemd[1249]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.

journalctl -b --grep=bluetooth output

Mar 15 13:13:32 archlinux systemd[1249]: Reached target Bluetooth.

pookiewookie

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From: Wisconsin

Registered: 2025-03-15

Posts: 3

Re: Microphone Constantly Acivated ruining sound quality

can somebody please help me

V1del

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Posts: 24,326

Re: Microphone Constantly Acivated ruining sound quality

See https://pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org/ … properties to configure wireplumber to only consider the two -sink profiles.