Audio becomes distorted/low quality when the microphone is active in Ubuntu 24.04 with PipeWire #sound #microphone #pipewire #wireplumber

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Audio becomes distorted/low quality when the microphone is active in Ubuntu 24.04 with PipeWire

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

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Only able to access audio through Bluetooth after installing pipewire 1.0.7 and wireplumber #sound #bluetooth #pulseaudio #alsa #wireplumber

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Only able to access audio through Bluetooth after installing pipewire 1.0.7 and wireplumber

I purchased a new Framework 13 laptop a few weeks ago and set it up with Kubuntu. All has been working well except for when I tried to take calls with my airpods. I could hear fine through them, bu...

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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

Hits assertion with pipewire 1.5.84 / wireplumber 0.5.13 (#34) · Issues · GNOME / libgnome-volume-control · GitLab

When switching to bluetooth profiles (e.g. via g-c-c) with pipewire 1.5.84 gvc crashes like: Gvc:ERROR:../gvc-mixer-stream.c:535:gvc_mixer_stream_get_port:...

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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)

https://github.com/magillos/Cable/

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

A (new?) PipeWire & WirePlumber app… – Amadeus Paulussen

PipeWire and WirePlumber deserve better. 😝

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?

#pipewire #wireplumber

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/

#LinuxMobile #linux #mobile

Phosh 0.52.1

The Phosh 0.52.1 Release

Phosh
Why does my 3.5mm #Apple #EarPods not work with my #SteamDeck lol, shouldn't these wired things be PnP?

edit: welp, dats the most
#Linux shit ever but the fix was to delete a #wireplumber dir lol ~/.local/state/wireplumber. A restart after that fixes it.

🔗 https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/3362523432286958212/#c597407469759720272
SteamDeck does not detect (anymore) connected headphones :: Steam Deck General Discussions

So just today I have discovered that my deck stopped detecting headphones connected via jack. They used to work like a month or two ago. Headphones themselves work with other devices. I have also tested deck with other headphones and there is the same issue. When I connect headphones literally nothing happens. Sound is still being played with deck's speakers.