Stereo To Mono How?

Manjaro provides manjaro-pulse and manjaro-pipewire so user can choose either software audio server

There is such a command - pulseaudio — Arch manual pages but it is not needed to remap a PulseAudio sink to mono
Method to force mono audio? - #2 by nikgnomic
Permanently enable mono audio output - #4 by nikgnomic
PulseAudio/Examples/Remap stereo to mono - ArchWiki

That is probably correct if pulseaudio is not found

pipewire-pulse can use PulseAudio module-remap-sink to remap audio channels to mono

pactl load-module module-remap-sink sink_name=mono master=NAME_OF_AUDIO_SINK  channels=2 channel_map=mono,mono

Or install easyeffects and set Stereo Tool plugin to ‘Mono Sum L+R’

AskUbuntu - How can I downmix stereo audio output to mono in PipeWire

For pipewire-jack (“pro-audio” profile) audio channels can be remapped manually in patchbay GUI (qpwgraph, helvum etc)

Archwiki does not have such information for PipeWire

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