Setting up combine-sink properly

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I was following this helpful guide for my crackling problems

[HowTo] Troubleshoot crackling in PipeWire

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ This tutorial will help you get rid of crackling/popping issues in PipeWire and PipeWire-Pulse. Now with instructions for both media-session and wireplumber. Tips:

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In the vast majority of PipeWire crackling cases, it occurs in applications designed for PulseAudio, which is why you can (and should) generally solve these issues with PipeWire’s Pulse specific options and variables. Try using ALSA without PulseAudio or PipeWire and see if you still have issues …

and I noticed that when I restart pipewire systemctl --user restart pipewire I have to reload the combine-sink I added manually pactl load-module module-combine-sink even tho the system boots properly.

Is there additional configuration I’m missing?

~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf

context.exec = [
    { path = "pactl"        args = "load-module module-combine-sink" }
    #{ path = "pactl"        args = "load-module module-always-sink" }
    #{ path = "pactl"        args = "upload-sample my-sample.wav my-sample" }
    #{ path = "/usr/bin/sh"  args = "~/.config/pipewire/default.pw" }
]