• @[email protected]
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    55 days ago

    FYI, Pulse and Pipewire are two different audio servers, not just branding.

    Pipewire should be more like JACK, but easier to use like PulseAudio. That was the whole point of it.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 days ago

      I know, but Pipewire gets a lot of hype and I’m not sure how much of it is deserved.

      I also don’t know where the “easier” part comes into play for the end-user. pavucontrol and pactl reveals as much to me under pipe as it did under pulse. I’m sure the I/O in the background is a lot cleaner, but I’ve not noticed anything in the foreground.

      • Ghoelian
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        34 days ago

        Those tools were made for pulseaudio, not pipewire, so it makes sense they worm the same. Don’t they have pipewire-specific versions of these tools?

        • @[email protected]
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          14 days ago

          I’m not sure. I’m using the pipewire-pulse module on top of pipe, which provides the “drop-in replacement” of pulse, so it all seems to work with the old tools.

          You make me wonder now whether I should drop pipewire-pulse and see if I still have accessible sound