Started diagnosing the audio issues I have with recording on Linux. As soon as I disabled the pipewire/pulsaudio service, it all worked swimmingly. Need to dig deeper. I wonder if I can live without the pulse audio layer at all now
@jmtd@pleroma.debian.social The first time I use a particular USB audio adapter on pipewire (or before that pulseaudio) pipewire locks up and becomes unresponsive. I unplug the device and reconnect, and it works fine.
@jmtd I was playing with this the other day, I installed pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa and pipewire-jack, and it uninstalled pulseaudio as a result.
My audio has been a *lot* better since.
@jmtd yeah, pulseaudio is garbage IMO. Switchted to pipewire and had 0 audio issues since then. Wondering if I still need the pulseaudio compat thing...
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@werdahias so the bad news is I seem to have already switched to pipewire but it is only the PA interface causing issues. If I can get my normal desktop stuff (Firefox etc) to use pipewire api (or even alsa) I could turn off the PA API
THe plot thickens: I need to add "PortAudio" to the mix (and: https://github.com/PortAudio/portaudio/issues/425)