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I wish pipewire would implement/facilitate the audio features of paprefs for sharing audio across the network.It's one of the gems that makes linux very appeali

by sebow 5y ago

I wish pipewire would implement/facilitate the audio features of paprefs for sharing audio across the network.It's one of the gems that makes linux very appealing for people who have multiple machines and want to connect audio.For example, with a bluetooth headset that is connected to a laptop running linux, you can also connect your desktop's audio to be outputted to the BT headset through paprefs,thus merging multiple audio sources.Haven't tried with more than 2 devices, but i think it would work.Sadly there's no solution yet for also adding an android device to the mix(you could use one of the few solutions that have the android device output audio through a webpage, which would be opened on the desktop, but those solutions have insane latency issues). If you really struggle to notice you can observe a little bit latency overhead and lower quality but that's honestly to be expected,but 90% of the times using this features is not intended for an 'audiophile' experience(for which we use the cable anyways). Until then i have to keep using pulseaudio, which is not terrible for some time now, mainly because it's past the point where everything was buggy.

WhyNotHugo 5y ago
Have you checked if there's at least a feature request for that? I might not even be on the radar.
- sebow 5y ago
  I did search couple months ago(or even sooner) and obviously nothing was found.To be fair i don't expect pipewire to implement even in the upcoming year such a feature, because it's not something easily done: that's why i switched back.However i was kind of disappointed by the fact that the compatibility module between pulseaudio & pipewire wasn't working in this case, because at least theoretically pulseaudio & paprefs does all the work of piping through the network(Because in my case i would have used the pipewire device, with the PA module, --Fedora-- just to transfer some audio to the actual device with PA --Ubuntu-- that has the BT connected), it's just that the module did not work. My setup is fine now (I had some stability issues with the latest kernels w/ Fedora anyways) but i hope there's more adoption for Pipewire (preferably Ubuntu due to the massive user base) to be a serious contender in terms of features (because it is already pretty stable).

by sebow 5y ago

WhyNotHugo 5y ago

Have you checked if there's at least a feature request for that? I might not even be on the radar.

sebow 5y ago
I did search couple months ago(or even sooner) and obviously nothing was found.To be fair i don't expect pipewire to implement even in the upcoming year such a feature, because it's not something easily done: that's why i switched back.However i was kind of disappointed by the fact that the compatibility module between pulseaudio & pipewire wasn't working in this case, because at least theoretically pulseaudio & paprefs does all the work of piping through the network(Because in my case i would have used the pipewire device, with the PA module, --Fedora-- just to transfer some audio to the actual device with PA --Ubuntu-- that has the BT connected), it's just that the module did not work. My setup is fine now (I had some stability issues with the latest kernels w/ Fedora anyways) but i hope there's more adoption for Pipewire (preferably Ubuntu due to the massive user base) to be a serious contender in terms of features (because it is already pretty stable).