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I hope some day I'll be able to make Pipewire work on Debian without messing everything else in the process: tried to install and set up it a few times and alwa

I hope some day I'll be able to make Pipewire work on Debian without messing everything else in the process: tried to install and set up it a few times and always failed ending up with no audio. Now I have an almost perfect situation with very low latency (4 ms or less) using Reaper with Alsa alone, no Jack involved. Also, by using Yabridge I solved all compatibility problems with Windows plugins, even those which wouldn't run anymore on modern Windows versions. If you ever had problems with LinVST, Yabridge will likely eliminate them all. My only problem now is the inability to play along a track I'm listening to with Qmmp or other player (that is, outside of Reaper) as it takes entire control of the audio. I would have to use either Pulseaudio with much much higher latency or Jack with all its configuration issues.

jeroenhd 4y ago
I don't know about your specific use case but my switch to Pipewire (on Ubuntu, to be fair) was quite easy to pull off. Stop+disable/uninstall PulseAudio, install Pipewire + Wireplumber + pipewire-pulse + whatever else you need, enable the necessary services by default on login and you're mostly done. My switch to Manjaro has only left me with one annoyance and that's that it doesn't remember the default sink for some reason. So far the 2 second clicks haven't been annoying enough for me to invest time into fixing that, but one day I'll probably find that darn broken setting...
- andrewshadura 4y ago
  The Ubuntu PipeWire integration comes, in fact, from Debian.
  - jeroenhd 4y ago
    Of course, but Ubuntu and Debian ship different versions of system libraries so one experience doesn't transfer to the other as well as you might otherwise expect.
- squarefoot 4y ago
  I also plan to switch the music PC to Manjaro soon. I really like that distro, maybe not as Debian for tinkering (networking, embedded boards, etc) but for desktop use looks really great to me: I already install it whenever someone asks me to migrate to Linux their PC.
themodelplumber 4y ago
4 ms is great. Do you happen to be using Intel HDA sound hardware or is that too much to wish for?
- squarefoot 4y ago
  I use a old Steinberg CI1 external USB card, but those figures should be obtainable also with on board audio chipsets as they got a lot better in the last decade.

jeroenhd 4y ago

I don't know about your specific use case but my switch to Pipewire (on Ubuntu, to be fair) was quite easy to pull off. Stop+disable/uninstall PulseAudio, install Pipewire + Wireplumber + pipewire-pulse + whatever else you need, enable the necessary services by default on login and you're mostly done. My switch to Manjaro has only left me with one annoyance and that's that it doesn't remember the default sink for some reason. So far the 2 second clicks haven't been annoying enough for me to invest time into fixing that, but one day I'll probably find that darn broken setting...

andrewshadura 4y ago
The Ubuntu PipeWire integration comes, in fact, from Debian.
- jeroenhd 4y ago
  Of course, but Ubuntu and Debian ship different versions of system libraries so one experience doesn't transfer to the other as well as you might otherwise expect.
squarefoot 4y ago
I also plan to switch the music PC to Manjaro soon. I really like that distro, maybe not as Debian for tinkering (networking, embedded boards, etc) but for desktop use looks really great to me: I already install it whenever someone asks me to migrate to Linux their PC.

themodelplumber 4y ago

4 ms is great. Do you happen to be using Intel HDA sound hardware or is that too much to wish for?

squarefoot 4y ago
I use a old Steinberg CI1 external USB card, but those figures should be obtainable also with on board audio chipsets as they got a lot better in the last decade.