Trying to wipe Pipewire or solve crackling

[binarydepth]

In th emeantime I have disabled pipewire services and socket but it was trial and error because everything is different from the old posts I find. Pipewie while running wine games just cracks and pops to finally just crash and I have to reboot to fix it. Maybe I coudl restart the service but this will solve nothing anyways. While Pulseaudio is rock solid and I am fine now for the time being.

I tried to uninstall pipewire entirely but ti was tied to many non-nonsensical dependencies and I don’t know what is happening. I think if I remove those packages my system will be bricked. Does someone has a solution to use Pipewire as of today because the Arch wiki has old info because I don’t find any of the configuration files mentioned in articles.

Preparing...
Checking dependencies...
Error: Failed to prepare transaction:
could not satisfy dependencies:
- removing wireplumber breaks dependency 'pipewire-session-manager' required by kwin
- removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire' required by xdg-desktop-portal

Preparing...
Checking dependencies...
Error: Failed to prepare transaction:
could not satisfy dependencies:
- removing xdg-desktop-portal breaks dependency 'xdg-desktop-portal' required by flatpak
- removing wireplumber breaks dependency 'pipewire-session-manager' required by kwin

Also, I need to replace Noise Reduction and Loudness equalization in Pulseaudio which I got from EasyEffects in Pipewire.

[weingeist]

The Package manjaro-pipewire deinstall pulseaudio and install pipewire.
The Package manjaro-pulse deinstall pipewire and install pulseaudio.

[nikgnomic]

@binarydepth

I tried to uninstall pipewire entirely but ti was tied to many non-nonsensical dependencies

pipewire is described as : “Low-latency audio/video router and processor”
and it is required for video support and cannot be removed

PulseAudio does not need a session manager so there is no replacement package for wireplumber

@weingeist

Package manjaro-pulse deinstall pipewire and install pulseaudio.

Metapackage manjaro-pulse installs pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa and pulseaudio-bluetooth to replace pipewire-pulse and pipewire-alsa

pamac info manjaro-pulse

Name                  : manjaro-pulse
Version               : 20240817-1
Description           : Manjaro meta package for complete PulseAudio support
URL                   : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio
Licences              : GPL-3.0-or-later
Repository            : extra
Groups                : --
Depends On            : pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-bluetooth
Optional Dependencies : paprefs: Configuration dialog
                        pasystray: system tray application
                        pavucontrol: A GTK volume control tool [Installed]
                        pavucontrol-qt: A Qt volume control tool
                        pulseaudio-equalizer: Graphical equalizer
                        pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa: A 15-band equalizer
                        pulseaudio-jack: Jack support [Installed]
                        pulseaudio-lirc: IR (lirc) support
                        pulseaudio-rtp: RTP and RAOP support
                        pulseaudio-zeroconf: Zeroconf support
Provides              : --
Replaces              : --
Conflicts With        : manjaro-pipewire pipewire-jack pipewire-pulse pipewire-v4l2 pipewire-x11-bell pipewire-zeroconf
Packager              : Mark Wagie <mark@manjaro.org>
Build Date            : Sat 17 Aug 2024 17:46:44 BST
Validated By          : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

If metapackage is not working as expected, PulseAudio can be installed to replace PipeWire audio packages

pamac install pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa

and select optional dependency pulseaudio-bluetooth if Bluetooth audio support is needed

[binarydepth]

@nikgnomic

pamac info manjaro-pulse

Thank You Very Much!

I need two things, Noise reduction and Loudness equalization which I got from EasyEffects. Do you know how to set those up? I will add to stating question.

[jrichard326]

This may be of interest:

[HowTo] Troubleshoot crackling in PipeWire

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ This tutorial will help you get rid of crackling/popping issues in PipeWire and PipeWire-Pulse. Edit: The guide now assumes that you are using wireplumber, pipewire-media-session instructions removed. Tips: Click to expand Short Guide: A much less detailed version of this guide meant for people who more or less know what they’re doing, but are feeling too lazy to be thorough about troubleshooting the issue. The full guide has better potential solutions, but this is the best…

[Aragorn]

@binarydepth

TYVM! <3

Please use colloquial English, not cellphone text speak. Not everyone here is a native English speaker, and therefore, not everyone will understand your abbreviations.

@binarydepth

I need two things, Noise reduction and Loudness equalization which I got from EasyEffects.

I don’t know about noise reduction — you can try searching the repos or the AUR — but for equalization, there is pulseaudio-equalizer.

[binarydepth]

Ok. Changed that

[nikgnomic]

@binarydepth

I need two things, Noise reduction and Loudness equalization which I got from EasyEffects

pulseffects-legacy-git from AUR

Do you know how to set those up?

I do not use noise reduction DSP. I use a dynamic microphone that has better noise rejection than condenser microphones (and closed-back headphones), so I usually use a noise gate to reduce background noise when I am not talking

I have used the LSP Loudness Compensator in JACK in the past, but I don’t usually listen to audio at low levels to need it. I usually use outboard DSP (levelling amplifier and 3-band EQ) for live audio. and sometimes pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa for background noise/low-quality audio from VOIP callers

[binarydepth]

Hey. I want to try to fix it. I am checking things to troubleshoot the OOTB installation.

I found out that wireplumber,conf.d is not there:

s /etc/pipewire && ls /etc/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d                                                                                              
client.conf.d  client-rt.conf.d  minimal.conf.d  pipewire.conf.d  pipewire-pulse.conf.d
ls: cannot access '/etc/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d': No such file or directory

Should I reinstall Wireplumber or even manjaro-pipewire?

[binarydepth]

mkdir -p ~/.config/pipewire/ && mkdir -p ~/.config/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/ && cp /usr/share/pipewire/*.conf ~/.config/pipewire/ && cp /usr/share/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/* ~/.config/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/

micro ~/.config/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/alsa-vm.conf

• add session.suspend-timeout-seconds = 0

actions = { 
  update-props = { 
    session.suspend-timeout-seconds = 0

micro ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf

In pipewire.conf change

#default.clock.rate          = 48000
#default.clock.allowed-rates = [ 48000 ]

to:

default.clock.rate          = 41000
default.clock.allowed-rates = [ 44100 48000 96000 192000 ] 

I did beyond 48000 but that is your choice.
Then reset

systemctl --user stop pipewire.socket

systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber

Maybe a Logout is needed or even a reboot if this doesn’t reset well, I am no expert. This reduced to almost zero without setting the default sample rate to 41k but then it stopped after that. There is still some crinkles when I click outside of a game or a sound is high. Next I will try 48k sample rate. But if I am not using Steam that doesn’t happen.

[Yochanan]

@binarydepth

/usr/share/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/alsa-vm.conf

That file is owned by wireplumber and will be overwritten the next time the package is updated.

Please see WirePlumber - ArchWiki for more information about what files are configurable and where they should be.

[binarydepth]

Ok then, it is better to do the ~/.config path then. Thanks!