PulseEffects issues with Pipewire

Hi !
Thank you for this: it got rid of the core dumped.
Now PulseEffects does start.
The sound is just horrendous and filters don’t seem to act.
In addition I lost all keyboard (and xfce) sound level control…

[edit]Solved, even if some filter are bugged for now (auto-gain - crystalizer - bass enhancer…)

In addition to what was already done, I applied @MajorMayer 's advice: [Stable Update] 2021-02-28 - Kernels, Plasma 5.21.1, Frameworks 5.79, Firefox, Thunderbird, Python - #219 by MajorMayer

I also removed xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin to only keep xfce4-volumed-pulse (this care of the keyboard volume settings)

Thank you all for this, here what I did:

sudo pacman -Rdd pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-bluetooth pulseaudio-ctl pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack pulseaudio-lirc pulseaudio-rtp pulseaudio-zeroconf pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa

as several packages were not insalled, I indeed did:

sudo pacman -Rdd pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-ctl pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa

then

sudo pacman -Rdd pulseeffects-legacy
sudo pacman -S manjaro-pipewire gst-plugin-pipewire pulseeffects
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

Then

systemctl --user unmask pipewire.socket && systemctl --user enable --now pipewire.socket

Then

sudo nano /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/media-session.conf

uncomment the “metadata” module in the default section.

[Edit] I reverted this one, as it seemed have a negative impact on somme pulseeffects filters
[Edit2] Reused it as, even if several pulseeffects 5 filters seem broken, quality of equalizer seems better with metadata uncommented.

Then

systemctl --user restart pipewire.service

and to recover my Xfce keyboard volume control :
[Edit] If you are not on Xfce, DON’T apply the next two commands.

sudo pacman -R xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin
sudo pacman -S xfce4-volumed-pulse

After all this pipewire & pulseeffect do work, even if, as said, several filters cannot be used for now.

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