Audacious music player doesn't like pipewire?

[shmu26]

I installed Audacious from the repo, and when I try to play music, I get the error
error opening output stream
But if I go to Audacious/Settings/Audio/Output settings/Output plugin
and I choose PulseAudio output
The playback works correctly.
I tested the Audacious beta version offered on AUR, and it’s no better.

inxi -F                                                                                     22 ✘ 
System:
  Host: manjaro Kernel: 6.5.11-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.9 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B365M-A v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2208
    date: 07/09/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: hidpp_battery_0 charge: 64% condition: N/A
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: Intel Core i7-9700 bits: 64 type: MCP cache: L2: 2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4700 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
    5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: USB C Video Adaptor driver: N/A type: USB
  Device-3: Microdia USB Live camera driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
    type: USB
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.9 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    dri: iris gpu: i915 s-res: 3840x1080 resolution: 1: 2560x1440 2: 1920x1080
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,swrast platforms: x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.1.9-manjaro1.1
    renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.269 drivers: intel surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: Microdia USB Live camera driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
    type: USB
  API: ALSA v: k6.5.11-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: a8:5e:45:e2:87:3c
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8152 type: USB
  IF: enp0s20f0u3u1 state: down mac: 00:e0:4c:68:51:92
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) driver: btusb
    type: USB
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.26 TiB used: 785.99 GiB (34.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: HDWD120 size: 1.82 TiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 99.1 GiB used: 27.21 GiB (27.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 31.5 MiB (32.8%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 30.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 301 Uptime: 51m Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.49 GiB
  used: 4.93 GiB (31.9%) Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.31

It looks like this poster had the same problem as me:

Audacious Error opening output stream in manjaro KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8

[Teo]

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Jasper Lake HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_icl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:4dc8
    class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.1-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
  Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.85 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl

It works in my case, maybe it is something Plasma related or driver related, because that inxi is pretty different from mine, i am on XFCE

[shmu26]

The solution turned out to be: install manjaro-pipewire
I discovered that I actually posted about a very similar issue once before, related to a previous installation of Manjaro:

Some audio players don't work right

When I test the audio in sound settings, and I click on left speaker, right speaker, it works. But some audio players are not working right. Audacious doesn’t access the sound tracks, and now Strawberry doesn’t put out sound. VLC still works. inxi -F  System: Host: shmuel-manjaro Kernel: 6.4.6-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.6 Distro: Manjaro Linux Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASU…

It seems that there is still something sub-optimal about the default audio setup for Manjaro.