Pipewire

Pipewire is the new sound system on Linux, meant to replace Pulseaudio.

Links

• PipeWire - Debian Wiki.
• PipeWire - ArchLinux

Commands

# View status
systemctl --user status pipewire

# Use PipeWire instead of JACK
pw-jack SOMEAPP

# PipeWire process viewer (quantum usage...)
pw-top

# Setup sinks, sources, audio devices
pw-link
qjackctl         # Graphical tool, leveraging on JACK
qpwgraph         # Alternative, pipewire native

# Command line
pw-cli
> info all

Bluetooth

• To change bluetooth device selected profile:

# See available profile and device id with 'pactl list'
pactl set-card-profile bluez_card.38_18_4C_4B_6A_3A a2dp-sink-sbc_xq

References

Configuration files:

• /usr/share/wireplumber