Change sound server to Pipewire

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Parrot version: 5.0 (Electric Ara)
Kernel version: 5.16.0-12parrot1-amd64
PulseEffects Version: 14.2
Pipewire Version: 0.3.19

Hey there, I was trying to swap from using PulseAudio with PulseEffects to Pipewire as my goto sound server, and combine that with EasyEffects for any audio adjustment. Is there a way to disable PulseAudio and let Pipewire handle all the audio?

I believe I have Pipewire installed, enabled, and started using systemctl. Problem is all my audio is still going through the PulseAudio server.

Running inxi -F, I see I’ve got 3 servers
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.0-12parrot1-amd64 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.19 running: yes

I can stop/disable both the pulseaudio.service/socket, and all audio from my pc will stop, so I know it’s coming from there. PulseAudio doesn’t actually stay disabled tho. It’ll start back up at next boot regardless if I tell systemctl to disable it. Do I need to completely uninstall it, for things to default to using Pipewire?

Using EasyEffects I can generate a white noise that I can only assume is trying to be put through Pipewire, but no matter what I do I can’t get that noise to play to my speakers.

Thank you for your time

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Hello. You probably have to uninstall it completely and leave only Pipewire, but be careful, you should follow the guide made by Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/pipewire

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Hey there, sorry for the late response, but I finally had time to give that a go. It looks like it’s mostly working now.

Pretty much just followed the guide over at PipeWire - Debian Wiki, but I did start with uninstalling pipewire

  • apt autoremove pipewire
  • apt autoremove pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
  • apt install pipewire libspa-0.2-bluetooth libspa-0.2-jack pipewire-audio-client-libraries
  • touch /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/with-pulseaudio
  • cp /usr/share/doc/pipewire/examples/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.* /etc/systemd/user/
  • systemctl --user daemon-reload
  • systemctl --user --now disable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket
  • systemctl --user --now enable pipewire pipewire-pulse
  • Reboot
  • systemctl --user mask pulseaudio
  • Reboot
  • Deleted ConditionUser=!root from “pipewire.socket” and “pipewire.service” in “/usr/lib/systemd/user”, and from “pipewire-pulse.service” and “pipewire-pulse.socket” in “/etc/xdg/systemd/user”
  • touch /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/with-alsa
  • cp /usr/share/doc/pipewire/examples/alsa.conf.d/99-pipewire-default.conf /etc/alsa/conf.d/
  • Reboot

I didn’t need the Jack step. Anything audio seems to work, been using it for a few days. inxi -F no longer shows a PulseAudio server, LANG=C pactl info says PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.19).

That’s all fine and dandy, but now to get effects and adjustments working. I had Easyeffects installed through a flatpack before all this and it ran, but I had a suspicion things weren’t working right. So I uninstalled and reinstalled, but now it doesn’t want to launch at all.

This guide also mentions qjackctl to control any routing, so I got that, but it doesn’t look like it’s working for Pipewire. It is a service meant for Jack, so maybe I should get some Jack stuff installed too.

But I don’t know what it could be just yet, and it’ll be a bit until I try anything. But if things workout, I’ll come back and drop what I’ve done. Thank you for the help tho

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