I have been having some issues with the audio on my virtualbox VM running the latest Windows 10 and the latest Vbox drivers.
Using the pulseaudio driver before the pipewire update everything was fine, after the update the sound is cracking every 2 seconds and there is a very big audio delay.
Using the ALSA driver mitigates the cracking issue to some extend but not fully.
As I mention in the original post, unfortunately this doesn’t really work. And even if it did, it causes even more problems since with ALSA the VM doesn’t detect my mic.
Im already using the Intel-HD-Audio for all the tests.
Well, in my case I had issues with version 0.3.26 that I was able to work around by downgrading all the packages above to 0.3.25. Every case is different I guess.
Version 0.3.27 just made it to the unstable branch, maybe you just need to wait for that update to be available to see if that fixes your issue.
It’s also a good idea to check out upstream to see if anybody else has reported similar issues there.
El_Brujo, Mine is Fedora 34 upgraded recently from 33. And I noticed this problem immediately after upgrade. Are many different reports abaout problems with pipewire, since audio crackles, cable/wifi/bluetooth network connections. Detail: My audio is Realtek, I don’t now if this help.
I’m not an expert in the area, but basically yes, it looks like Pipewire is not mature enough that it causes many issues, mostly audio-related. (I had issues with video involving pipewire though).
Not sure about Fedora but this topic is widely discussed within the Manjaro community.