Questions tagged [pipewire]
Questions related to PipeWire, a new low-level multimedia framework, that offers capture and playback for both audio and video with minimal latency and support for PulseAudio-, JACK-, ALSA- and GStreamer-based applications. It might become a PulseAudio replacement in the near future.
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Bluetooth audio device connected but can't select it as output device
In Gnome's Bluetooth settings, I can connect to my earbuds. However, despite seeing that they are in [Connected] state in the GUI, and "paired" via bluetoothctl info[1], I cannot select them ...
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How can I enable surround sound on Ubuntu 23.04?
I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 23.04 from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (upgraded to 22.04 first, then 23.04). I believe the latter used PulseAudio, and the surround sound/subwoofer on my laptop (Lenovo X1 Carbon ...
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System volume doesn't change app volume
I recently set up a dual boot laptop (Lenovo Yoga pro 7) with Ubuntu 22.04 and I'm having troubles with the volume control. At the moment the system volume slider doesn't change the volume of apps ...
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After updae to Lunar 23.04 GQRX gone, Pulseaudio DUMMY audio Gone, DSD-FME fails
I used Ubuntu to decode digital audio streaming from an SDR device via GQRX as nearly my only hobby. After upgrading to Lunar, this is completely removed. Main gr-osmo components of GQRX were ...
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How often should we expect component upgrades (particularly pipewire) [duplicate]
I am running Xubuntu 23.04 which includes pipewire 0.3.65.
However the latest release of pipewire appears to be version 0.3.80 and this has not been the only release since version 0.3.65.
So my ...
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No output sound on LG Gram 2023 i7-1360p
I recently bought the lg gram 2023 and I have the output sound problem, even though I have tried many methods from this website. I'm pretty sure that the speaker working just fine when I'm using ...
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Sound input devices not detected in Ubuntu 22.04
I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 and my input and output built-in sound devices weren't detected by the system. After trying every option described in No sound output devices listed ...
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USB headset microphone not usable in settings, but still detected by alsa
welcome to another episode of the never-ending story: troubleshooting audio...
I have an USB3 headset (Jabra Connect 4h). Speakers work fine, but microphone is not usable:
alsa seems to see it:
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How do I combine left and right channel into mono channel with pipewire
Using pipewire or wireplumber how can we make an stereo output device became mono by combining the left and right channel ?
This particular question seems silly, but its very useful, be that your ...
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Chromium is not able to access pipewire-pulse's virtual-sink.monitor
When trying to run chromium on a headless ubuntu server, chromium is printing below error
[48089:48089:0820/175843.665081:ERROR:pulse_util.cc(351)] pa_operation is nullptr.
Here is some information
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No Audio after Booting into Windows or Switching Desktops
I'm running an Asus Zenbook 14, that I use to dual-boot between Windows and Ubuntu Unity (though since I like trying out other desktops I tend to also have a revolving door of other ones I like to try ...
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Unmask pipewire service?
currently have no audio out. When I try to restart pipewire, I get the following
systemctl --user restart pipewire{,-pulse}.{socket,service} pipewire-media-session.service
Failed to restart pipewire-...
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23.04: Sound issues with wired headphones
I've been having some audio issues after updating to Ubuntu 23.04. I have a Dell Vostro 3405.
So...internal speakers work fine. When I plug in my headphones (wired) sound works fine. However, if I ...
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Disable Auto switch of bluetooth device profiles (specifically input), when apps request it, in pipewire and ubuntu 23.04
I faced the same issue as described in this r/linuxquestions reddit comment , but for pipewire instead.
In a nutshell: By default, the audio controllers and system allow apps to switch from high ...
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Razer 14 (2023) no audio in 23.04
I just recently purchased a new Razer 14 (2023) laptop and installed Ubuntu 23.04 on it. The SSD is partitioned in half and dual-boots Windows 11. Windows 11 audio works flawlessly (so I know it isn't ...
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distortion using Elektron Syntakt as an audio interface
I'm having a strange problem trying to use an Elektron Syntakt as an audio interface via USB. The thing is that this worked without any problems or special configuration in Ubuntu Studio 22.04, but ...
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Easy Effects 7.0.5 is preventing media from streaming
I've been using Easy Effects for some time with no issues, using Ziyad Nazem's presets. I'm using Ubuntu 23.04 with GNOME 44.2
When I start easy effects, any media such as youtube, spotify, netflix, ...
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mod.protocol-pulse: server 0x55660ccbe800: failed to create client: Connection refused
Often, when my PC runs for a while and I try open the PulseAudio volume control panel, it refuses to connect to the PA server, the panel gets stuck at "Establishing connection to PulseAduio. ...
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Sound disappearing ("Dummy output") on any kernel above 5.15, Dell XPS 17
so I'm regularly having some sound problems with my Dell on kernel updates, but the latest one (when pipewire was introduced) completely baffles me, as I really have no clue what to do any longer.
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Can't record audio in Davinci Resolve
I have downloaded the free version of Resolve 18.5 beta 4 and installed it on Ubuntu 23.10.Everything is working fine except the audio recording, there is no option in the sound settings to choose my ...
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Class compliant audio interface not detected anymore
My Dell XPS 13 laptop runs Ubuntu 22.10 with Pipewire. I use an external audio interface, an RME Babyface Pro class compliant, both as an alternative general output and as a pro soundcard in Bitwig or ...
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How can I change Bluetooth buffer size?
I have installed Ubuntu 23.04. There is a Bluetooth issue in this version that causes the audio streamed from my phone to my Linux desktop to be very laggy (There was not such a problem in the 22.04 ...
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Ubuntu Studio - Suddenly issue where some applicatons need sudo to run
I'm on Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS and suddenly I can't run Audacity, Qjackctl, Carla or plugdata without sudo on the terminal. If I launch them from icon or from terminal with no sudo,they only appear ...
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No Sound issue - Unalbe to detect sound input devide : Ubuntu 23.04
Please help me to get this working for me.
I have tried all possible listed solutions but non is working for me.
https://itsfoss.com/fix-sound-ubuntu-1304-quick-tip/
Shring more information related to ...
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Wireplumber needs to be restarted for the A2DP profile to work
I have recently bought some bluetooth earbuds (Soundcore A40). I had some problems related to the sound profile, where I could only use the HSP/HFP profile with very bad quality.
I switched from ...
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How to use phone as microphone in linux
I am using Ubuntu 22.03 LTS currently and I want to know if there is any way to use android as microphone for Linux. I tried WoeMic but it didn't work. I tried following all the instruction in woeMic ...
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No sound from the rear/woofer speaker of Asus Zephyrus G14 2023
On Asus Zephyrus G14 2023, sound only comes out of the pair of tweeter speaker. The woofer speaker does not produce any sound at all on either on Analog Stereo, Analog Surround 4.0, or 2.1 ...
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Videos won't play after upgrade from 22.10 to 23.04. Looks like a pipewire / wireplumber problem
After upgrading from 22.10 to 23.04, I started having intermittent problems with youtube videos. The audio starts fine. I'll see a few frames of video, while the audio continues. After about 15 ...
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No audio on Ubuntu 23.04 fresh install
I have just installed ubuntu 23.04 on my hp 15 fc00xx laptop. The sound would not work at all, there is only 'Dummy Output' in the settings. I have read about 100 posts and have tried everything. But ...
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Sound stuttering in virtual machine
In Ubuntu 23.04 and 22.10 installed in VMware 13 there is sound stuttering. Ubuntu 20.04 does not have this problem. In Fedora 38 I also had problems with sound. In fedora 38 I changed the file ~/....
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How can I play sound when not logged in on Ubuntu?
System: Ubuntu LTS 22.03 and 23.04 tested.
I only hear sound after i did login into the login manager (gnome), so i cannot play anything from terminal without login into Gnome...
I have a Python ...
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SPDIF/TOSLINK/optical audio output missing after upgrading from 22.10 to 23.04
After GUI-upgrading from Xubuntu 22.10 to 23.04 I had a nightmare of a time getting various issues fixed, principally caused by imbalanced packages (mainly exo). In doing so I also purged my nvidia ...
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Logitech Brio 4K no microphone sound in Ubuntu 23.04
I have bought a Logitech Brio 4K camera which is running fine out of the box as a webcam but I can't get the microphone to work reliably. I'm on Ubuntu 23.04 and the camera is plugged using an USB ...
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Pipewire on Ubuntu (20.04) playing audio on both speaker and headphone port
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04, albeit with some changes to the regular distribution. I installed the minimal Ubuntu server and then got what I wanted from some repositories. For example, I got the Kubuntu ...
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Sound issues after upgrading to 23.04
I have a HP laptop, Omen 15, I used the previous ubuntu version with no issues, but I just upgraded and noticed a weird issue.
When I play a sound that has pauses in it, the sound cuts at the start of ...
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Ubuntu sound control menu is not working after upgrading to Ubuntu 23.04
As you can see on the screenshot the sound menu of the Ubuntu settings is always empty, and I am not able to change any sound source or volume, etc.
Meanwhile when I execute inxi -Fxz, my audio ...
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Accidentally uninstalled GUI when removing Pipewire
I was having sound issues (previous question), and after a lot of reading heard of the much-touted PipeWire.
I followed this helpful guide to install PipeWire. This only made things worse, as now ...
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Pipewire Noise Cancellation kubuntu 23.04
I am trying to setup noise cacellation with pipewire on my laptop.
I need the noise cancellation because I am recording myself for scholarship purposes.
I found this article below. @joelostblom posted ...
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No Audio Ubuntu 22.10
Just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.10 on my Asus Zenbook 14 OLED (model Q409ZA) but I have no audio. I followed a guide on installing pipewire, but that did not work. I saw some other questions ...
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PipeWire no sound on TV via HDMI
On Ubuntu 22.10 I have a strange bug for sound on HDMI, the sound is working fine on my LG monitor plugged via HDMI but not on my Continental Edison TV (HDMI as well).
So I tried with a live CD of ...
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Pipewire pulse isn't running properly
When I first log on to my computer, no audio output device is detected. When I run pipewire-pulse in the terminal it gives this output
[W][00099.552106] mod.rt | [ module-rt.c: 297 ...
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Running Ubuntu in VM -- No Sound after upgrading to 22.10
I just updgraded from 22.04 to 22.10. I'm running Ubuntu in a Hyper-V VM. I had pulse audio configured and working and sound was working well using xrdp-sink as an output device prior to the upgrade. ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Bluetooth audio woes (WF-1000XM4)
I've had this headset for a while now and have had mixed luck with getting these to work nicely on any linux distro, including now the latest LTS ubuntu release.
Most of the issues regarding these is ...
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Crackling sound when on Ubuntu 22.10
I have a problem with sound on Ubuntu 22.10.
The sound is kinda crackling and popping when playing any audio no matter the source.
I can't find anything that would make that happen. I have tried to ...
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Echo with OBS, Soundux and Discord
In Ubuntu 22.04 I had a nice setup where I could stream an external audio/video stream mixed with audio and video from my webcam to Discord.
Since Ubuntu 22.10 the audio part causes echo for the ...
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Ubuntu 22.10 can no longer find built-in speakers on Dell Precision 7200
Ubuntu 22.10 can no longer find built-in speakers on Dell Precision 7200. It will send Firefox streaming internet radio to the line out to external speakers. Pulse audio volume control says built-in ...
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Microphone noise cancellation
I managed to get the microphone noise cancellation to work (in 20.04) a few months ago by adding the following to the /etc/pulse/default.pa
load-module module-echo-cancel source_name=noechosource ...
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How to get audio when starting a GUI program as another user on Kubuntu 22.10 (PipeWire)?
I currently use a command like this to start Firefox as a different user:
# using fake "get-user2-password" command abstraction here for simplicity
xhost "+SI:localuser:user2" &...
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How to make Pipewire work with Carla?
I just reinstalled Ubuntu Studio 22.04.1 and, in my previous installation, I had replaced pulseaudio with Pipewire as per the instructions on this site: https://trendoceans.com/enable-pipewire-and-...
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Ubuntu 22.10 Pipewire / Wireplumber: a2dp-sink profile connect failed. Device or resource busy
The BT earbuds w/ mic Jabra Elite 85t generally work good but sometime it gets messy after a while I have to put them back in the box, or even restart the system.
I am using Ubuntu 22.10 freshly ...
