I've been having #bluetooth issues (#cinnamon crashed everytime I connected my BT headphones) since a recent system upgrade.
It seems this was caused by a bug introduced in #wireplumber 0.5.13.
I've downgraded wireplumber and libwireplumber to a previous version and now BT is working nicely.
Audio becomes distorted/low quality when the microphone is active in Ubuntu 24.04 with PipeWire #sound #microphone #pipewire #wireplumber
Ubuntu 24.04 PipeWire 1.0.5 PipeWire / WirePlumber is causing my audio to sound like there's water in my speakers when the microphone is active. I'm looking for either fix to issue or different audio
The auto brightness added in 0.51 saw some improvements. We now remember a user set offset across reboots and also compensate for night light automatically (as contrast is reduced under red shift at low brightness for the human 👁️).
We also fixed several bugs in volume control selection related to new #pipewire and #wireplumber versions.
There's a bunch of other improvements like "Settings" button in the caffeine quick settings status page that takes you right to the plugin config. Most of the work for this happened in mobile settings and we'll reuse that for other plugins too.
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Turns out I'm not the only one currently with Bluetooth problems on Linux. The latest WirePlumber version 0.5.13 introduces a new auto-switch to headset profiles for Bluetooth headsets, which crashes my Jabra Headset from work but not my Google Pixel Buds Pro 2.
The workaround for the moment is either downgrading to 0.5.12 or disabling the new auto-switch feature with the following:
```
wpctl settings -s bluetooth.autoswitch-to-headset-profile false
```
(Taken from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgnome-volume-control/-/issues/34#note_2645091)
The `-s` persists this change - otherwise I'd have to remember setting this after every login.
#bluetooth #linux #wireplumber
I made a call for help regarding Pipewire recently. And got some retoots. Thx for that.
Sadly i have to push that issue again.
I run Open Sound Meter which comes as an AppImage.
Issue:
Somehow OSM doesn't connect to Pipewire but to the audio interface directly. So it doesn't show up in the pw patchbay.
There was a suggestion to configure pipewire-alsa. I found zero helpful information on that matter. Just the general documentation that lists a lot but tutors not so much.
Any hint appreciated.
#Pipewire #wireplumber #AppImage #opensoundmeter #linux #linuxaudio #linuxaudioproduction
And lastly I wanted to mention "Cable". A graphical GUI for managing #PipeWire and #WirePlumber. An amazing piece of software. Simple but so important! Having the basic audio settings like sample-rate or offset and restarting the system-d services at hand. Latter has sadly been needed with my old interface, because it did not get detected by WirePlumber after Stand-By. (3/3)
Dear #linuxaudio friends, what are your thoughts on my dream of a new #pipewire / #wireplumber app? 🤔
https://amadeuspaulussen.com/blog/2026/a-new-pipewire-and-wireplumber-app
Something that I've noticed is that when you use PipeWire and start playing something, e.g. a youtube clib in Firefox, then PipeWire auto connects some sources with some sinks. Sometimes this works fine, but sometimes it just does the wrong thing, and when you disconnect and route it manually it keeps doing it the wrong way.
I'm thinking this has to do with WirePlumber doing the wrong things (for whatever reason). Have you seen this before? What can you do about it?
For distros using recent #pipewire and #wireplumber: We've released #phosh 0.52.1 to fix a crash in gvc when switching to #bluetooth output: https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.52.1/
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