PulseAudio 15 Released With Bluetooth Improvements, Better Hardware Support

[Sesivany]

For LDAC, at least in Fedora, the lib is in the official repo : libldac.x86_64 2.0.2.3-8.fc34 @fedora

The problem was that libldac is released under MIT and for quite some time upstream claimed LGPL 2.1 software can't link MIT software. I would also like to hear what changed their mind. Pipewire has never had that problem because it's also released under MIT.

[Berniyh]

Nice that they finally managed to get that in, but (for me) it's too late. I switched to pipewire already since it provided aptx support.

Also, if you look at the history of aptx Support in Pulseaudio, it's crazy how long it took them to get there.
Was another reason for me to switch rather sooner than later.

[Vistaus]

Very nice.
The new virtual-surround-sound convolution engine should bring up the quality closer to that of HeSuVi and supports more than 5.1 channels. I've been waiting for this.

Quality and PulseAudio… that's not something I often hear in the same sentence within the Linux community

[sheepdestroyer]

Does someone know how they managed to support LDAC and AptX (HD)? As far as I know, LDAC had licence conflicts and AptX patent issues.

Same as with PipeWire
For aptX / aptX HD, you need to install libopenaptx by yourself : https://github.com/pali/libopenaptx
If the lib's there, those codecs should work.

For LDAC, at least in Fedora, the lib is in the official repo : libldac.x86_64 2.0.2.3-8.fc34 @fedora

[holunder]

Does someone know how they managed to support LDAC and AptX (HD)? As far as I know, LDAC had licence conflicts and AptX patent issues.

[binarybanana]

Very nice.
The new virtual-surround-sound convolution engine should bring up the quality closer to that of HeSuVi and supports more than 5.1 channels. I've been waiting for this.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PulseAudio 15 Released With Bluetooth Improvements, Better Hardware Support

While PipeWire continues on a nice upward trajectory for fulfilling the roles of PulseAudio and JACK along with other audio/video stream management needs, PulseAudio isn't letting up yet and on Tuesday saw its big version 15.0 release...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PulseAudio-15.0