After a clean install two weeks ago I installed pulseaudio-modules-bt in an attempt to get my bluetooth headphones to sound better but instead of fixing things it made them worse.
I now have the whole set of codec options but when I select AAC it just remains stuck on HSP (or whatever it is).
It then occurred to me that Manjaro is now using pipewire and the pulseaudio-modules-bt is deprecated so I probably didn’t need it in the first place.
Thing is, it did replace another package (and I can’t remember the name of it, I know → 🤦🏼) and when I try to remove it it also wants to remove al lot of essential gnome related packages like GDM, Gnome settings, … About 30 of them.
So safe to say I’m in quite the pickle here since I’ve come to the point where I have no clue what to do and my 500 euro high quality bluetooth headphones sound worse than my 8bit Nokia 3310 ringtones used to sound
You can check the /var/log/pacman.log file to see what got removed when you installed pulseaudio-modules-bt.
And then just install that with sudo pacman -S <package name> and it will probably ask you if you want to remove pulseaudio-modules-qt in the process. Say yes to that.
Manjaro is not using Pipewire by default. However, the developer of pulseaudio-modules-bt is so he has archived the repo and announced it’s deprecated.
Pipewire is available to switch to if you prefer. Some packages require it, but that doesn’t interfere with using PulseAudio by default.
Now I was able to switch to pipewire (through these steps). The next issue being that I seem to have no A2DP codecs available for my headset. Tried to remove /var/lib/bluetooth and re-pair my headphones but no luck. Think I’ll might have to install something else or something.
(Marking @moson as the solution but in fact every post here was a solution so thanks a lot!)
