PipeWire 0.3.71 Released With Performance Improvements, Zero Latency JACK D-Bus Bridge

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PipeWire 0.3.71 Released With Performance Improvements, Zero Latency JACK D-Bus Bridge

PipeWire 0.3.71 is out today as the newest update to this now widely-used open-source solution for managing Linux audio and video streams and serving as a viable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK for audio needs on the Linux desktop...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/PipeWire-0.3.71-Released

[piorunz]

I remember when audio problems were a thing in Linux. ALSA, barely any configuration, no per app sound adjustment, compatibility problems. Then early Pulseaudio days, bugs, massive stuttering and latency.
These days are long gone and audio subsystem just works in all distros. ❤️

[caligula]

So, BAP stands for Basic Audio Profile for Bluetooth LE.

[evert_mouw]

So, BAP stands for Basic Audio Profile for Bluetooth LE.

In another universe, BAP stands for Bronze Age Pervert

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_Pervert

[M@GOid]

I remember when audio problems were a thing in Linux. ALSA, barely any configuration, no per app sound adjustment, compatibility problems. Then early Pulseaudio days, bugs, massive stuttering and latency.
These days are long gone and audio subsystem just works in all distros. ❤️

I remember using a 5.1 sound system and having problems with ALSA. Pulseaudio came and had a rocky launch for sure, but today I barely notice it exists. Today my Surround sound works better than ever.

[pieman]

the only thing i wish was the ability to easy change sample rates and bit rate. i know pipewire allows it, but you have to go digging into configuration files. i wish the big desktop enviroments created an easy way to change these in their settings. a simple "24 bit, 192khz, 32bit, 384hz" etc.windows has had this ability for a very long time and windows 11 made it even easier to do.

whats also a shame is that pipewire has a cool feature where you can set multiple sample rates that is supported by the sound card, and have it switch to that sample rate when the source file matches it. by default if multiple streams are playing it will use the highest sample rate, but when sitting back enjoying music, if its 44khz, sample rate is 44, 92khz, sample rate is 92khz, etc. it be really nice if that was exposed via say gnome's setting panel or kde's setting panel.

[Wtay]

the only thing i wish was the ability to easy change sample rates and bit rate. i know pipewire allows it, but you have to go digging into configuration files. i wish the big desktop enviroments created an easy way to change these in their settings. a simple "24 bit, 192khz, 32bit, 384hz" etc.windows has had this ability for a very long time and windows 11 made it even easier to do.

Bit depth is always float for processing and the highest depth your hardware supports (24 or32 bits likely, this conversion is lossless).

You don't have to edit config files to change sample rate, you can change it at runtime with the pw-metadata command: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipew...erate-settings

[loganj]

I remember when audio problems were a thing in Linux. ALSA, barely any configuration, no per app sound adjustment, compatibility problems. Then early Pulseaudio days, bugs, massive stuttering and latency.
These days are long gone and audio subsystem just works in all distros. ❤️

yes. it was a long time ago.....quite a lot of seconds.....the other day the sound started to sound weird in a game just because i started a clip in firefox.....so yeah....the sound system is still crap these days

[pieman]

Bit depth is always float for processing and the highest depth your hardware supports (24 or32 bits likely, this conversion is lossless).

You don't have to edit config files to change sample rate, you can change it at runtime with the pw-metadata command: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipew...erate-settings

it still be nice to change the bit rate via a gui manually. just like it be nice to change the sample rate via a gui.

[piorunz]

yes. it was a long time ago.....quite a lot of seconds.....the other day the sound started to sound weird in a game just because i started a clip in firefox.....so yeah....the sound system is still crap these days

Sorry, not my experience. (Debian Testing) with pipewire 0.3.65-3.