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PipeWire 1.6 Released with Support for Audio Channel Layouts, LDAC Decoder (9to5linux.com)
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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

For those, like myself, who don’t know:

PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It provides a low-latency, graph-based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both PulseAudio and JACK. PipeWire was designed with a powerful security model that makes interacting with audio and video devices from containerized applications easy, with support for Flatpak applications being the primary goal.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

Pipewire is goat, I got better audio support on Linux with Pipewire than Windows on a gaming laptop no less

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

On my topping e2x2 pipewire treats my 2 mono inputs as a single stereo input. Left is input 1, right is input 2. Tad irritating. Any chance this update will help?

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Pipewire is sick, I love it.

pipewire + Carla + LSP = easy, powerful DSP for both your inputs and outputs. Just a multiband compressor and parametric EQ do wonders for headphones and speakers

[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Raysession is better than Carla, it'll automatically content the connections for you.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip, I didn't know of it, but if I'm not mistaken it doesn't load LV2/VST3 natively? If I have my Carla session open it shows the plugins, but I can't open their UIs, and I don't see a way to add them if it's not loaded. Plus it's a JACK client, not Pipewire from what I can tell. So neat tool but not a 1:1 replacement :) I also don't think automatic connections would work for me as some of my patches have sidechains.

My biggest gripe with Carla was indeed that it holds the internal connections between plugins but doesn't autoconnect applications, so whenever you change patches or pause your streaming client for more than 15s you need to tell it to connect again. So my current setup is one big "master patch" with several chains inside, that end in a 4-channel A/B switcher I use to change between the headphone and speaker chains for example, plus a simple bash script that loops forever (sleeping if everything is ok) and does some pw-link calls. It ended up being a lot less janky than I was expecting tbh :D (happy to share if anyone is interested)

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Pipewire can use vsts natively.

I use an RNN noise plugin for background noise removal, it's just a pipewire device that you can connect other sources through (using graphical wireplumber interfaces) or hard code specific inputs/outputs in the config.

It's probably a lot easier to use them in an application, but if you only need a few then this is a way to handle it without needing additional software.

[–] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Packet loss concealment sounds hilarious without context :D

What's even the point of TCP? Just use UDP with PLC!

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd like to tell you a joke about UDP, but you might not get it... 😉

[–] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fear not, the concealment layer will make something ACK!

[–] LOLseas@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unless we're talking about the AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio Controller and supporting surround 5.1 and above. Going through this headache for years, under Debian. Front Left/Rear Left play audio through just the Front Left speaker, and the same goes for the Right channels. I am not so happy with my PipeWire experience.

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hate the Linux Frankenstein audio stack sooooo much

[–] jcarax@beehaw.org 2 points 12 hours ago

It's better than the OSS days, at least. And I dare say Pipewire is better in most situations than Alsa, can't really speak for Jack. It's really trying to be that unifying, centralizing force that allows us to move past the Frankenstein mess. But, well...