Choppy audio, sometimes no audio altogether

[3bf03ed873b96a9dd721]

Hi,

I have problems with my audio with or without headphones:

1. It is choppy.
2. It sometimes stops completely and only comes back after a restart.

does anyone have any feedback on this?

Cheers.

[6x12]

If you use pipewire have a look at this:

Can't skip in a song in music players

If an update doesn’t solve it; I just encountered the same issue in parole player and managed to fix it by following this:

[3bf03ed873b96a9dd721]

Hello,

Thanks for the link. I do not know if I am using pipewire, I also have never heard of that software. My manjaro installation is as it came from the iso from which I installed. Does anyone have any suggestion to fix this problem or could you tell me how to find out if I am using pipewire?

Cheers.

[6x12]

To give us more info about your hardware please post the output of
inxi -Fz
There will be a line like:
Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.45 running: yes

If that’s the case you can go ahead and fine tune your pipewire config:

[HowTo] Troubleshoot crackling in PipeWire

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ This tutorial will help you get rid of crackling/popping issues in PipeWire and PipeWire-Pulse, as well as replace PulseAudio with PipeWire. Tips:

Click to expand

Try using ALSA without PulseAudio or PipeWire and see if you still have issues on ALSA (if you do, it’s unlikely that any setting you set in PipeWire is going to solve the issue) if you are using PipeWire and want to switch to ALSA, the command to stop Pipewire is: systemctl --user stop pipewire.socket The comma…

[3bf03ed873b96a9dd721]

Hi,

It seems I have that software installed:

[angelc@manjaro ~]$ inxi -Fz | grep PipeWire
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.45 running: yes
[angelc@manjaro ~]$ 

However:

1. As far as I know I did not break this pipewire thing.
2. The tutorial you point me to is pretty long and I would rather not follow it.

Is there an easier way to fix the sound? Like for instance, uninstalling pipewire and installing something else? Or I have to go through those 4 pages of instructions to get the sound working?

Cheers.