As one who has switched to Pipewire recently, I can’t stress enough what a blessing it is.
It’s trivially easy to switch to Pipewire and suddenly your audio Just Works™️, including bluetooth audio. I’ve had to stand this hateful turd Pulseaudio for years, regularly having to wipe ~/.config/pulse and killall -9 pulseaudio, then reconnect my BT headphones several times to make it work for the day at work, and the minute I installed Pipewire, my headphones suddenly started working like they would with Windows or Android: come in in the morning, turn on, beep, connect, music. No fuss, no bother and no cursing stupid software that doesn’t work right.
I wish I had known about Pipewire a long time ago. If you don’t, do yourself a favor and switch today!
Am I just lucky? I’ve had 0 issues with PulseAudio so far. I also use Bluetooth quite often, although in the other direction (audio from phone to computer).
Though I did briefly use Bluetooth earphones too, but that concept really didn’t appeal to me, so I returned to wired once the case broke again 3 months after I replaced the charging chip. I still have one more of those chips, so I could try again, but I have no motivation for that.
no more trying to get JACK to work with my ‘pro’ audio applications and then wanting to run a game and oops jack is still running and oops now something wants to record using pulse for whatever reason and you had all your inputs set to alsa…
As one who has switched to Pipewire recently, I can’t stress enough what a blessing it is.
It’s trivially easy to switch to Pipewire and suddenly your audio Just Works™️, including bluetooth audio. I’ve had to stand this hateful turd Pulseaudio for years, regularly having to wipe ~/.config/pulse and killall -9 pulseaudio, then reconnect my BT headphones several times to make it work for the day at work, and the minute I installed Pipewire, my headphones suddenly started working like they would with Windows or Android: come in in the morning, turn on, beep, connect, music. No fuss, no bother and no cursing stupid software that doesn’t work right.
I wish I had known about Pipewire a long time ago. If you don’t, do yourself a favor and switch today!
https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/04/pipewire-replace-pulseaudio-ubuntu-2204/
Am I just lucky? I’ve had 0 issues with PulseAudio so far. I also use Bluetooth quite often, although in the other direction (audio from phone to computer).
Though I did briefly use Bluetooth earphones too, but that concept really didn’t appeal to me, so I returned to wired once the case broke again 3 months after I replaced the charging chip. I still have one more of those chips, so I could try again, but I have no motivation for that.
no more trying to get JACK to work with my ‘pro’ audio applications and then wanting to run a game and oops jack is still running and oops now something wants to record using pulse for whatever reason and you had all your inputs set to alsa…
me too i have to do a lot of manual operations to BT to my Linux box. I’ll be looking for this!
This was my main gripe with Linux. I really hated it.