Hey #LinuxAudio geeks, anyone succeeded using multiple #proAudio cards with #pipewire? I have a RME HDSPe MADI (with a massive 32 in rack) and a RME HDSPe RayDAT (with a modest 8x8 in/out rack). In pipewire, I only see the MADI card. I have 0 DA converter on MADI so it's basically useless: I have *zero* working outputs with Pipewire.

I can run jackd over pipewire and it works, but gets unreliable: the bridge from jack to pw regularly drops under load, requiring a restart of jackd.

Ideas?

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If you missed it Fedora Magazine recently ran a great article on Wireplumber, our PipeWire Session Manager - https://fedoramagazine.org/introduction-to-wireplumber/
#linux #audio #pipewire

Wireplumber is the session manager for @pipewire, helping to provide stability and flexibility to your Linux system. You can also do scripting with Lua!

https://fedoramagazine.org/introduction-to-wireplumber/

#PipeWire 1.4.2 Released with Extra MIDI Checks to Avoid 100% CPU Usage on Older Kernels https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-4-2-adds-extra-midi-checks-to-avoid-100-cpu-usage-on-older-kernels

@pipewire #OpenSource #Linux #FreeSoftware

I've got a network speaker (a Denon Home 150) that speaks "AirPlay Remote", "AirTunes Remote", "Tidal Connect", "Spotify Connect", "HEOS Audio", and "Qobuz Connect" according to Avahi.

How can I play music on this from Linux?

My music player (Strawberry) doesn't list it or any of those protocols, and I can't set it as an audio device (which is probably a good thing).

#Linux audio is bizarrely confusing to a regular user lol - if I were to configure a #PulseAudio setting (i.e. clock.force-quantum) but obviously most systems now have moved to using #PipeWire, but from what I can tell or think to understand is that systems use PipeWire via something called #WirePlumber, should this (user-specific) configuration be done in a WirePlumber config, or PipeWire? I normally could learn these things easily through the #ArchWiki, but so far, this topic is completely lost on me lol.

I'm not sure how many people on here run archlinux, but recently, a contribution I made to speech dispatcher, namely the pipewire module I talked about a while ago on here, got in the arch package.

Before wooping with joy and other similar feelings because something I made, with the help of the maintainer of course, got into a mainline distribution people actually use, not just in my computer, it'd be really nice if I could know whether it made any tangible difference.

So then, here are afew of the things I hoped to come true with the introduction of a pipewire native audio module:

* less battery usage by speech dispatcher
* the ability to be able to speak normally, even in high stress environments, such as low-memory and so on
* lower cpu consumption
* lower latency when speaking and being interrupted often, the case of screenreaders fits perfectly here

Now, I'm absolutely no statistician, and I don't know how to even begin to measure any of this. So, here is me asking help from the wider fediverse.

For the people who know how any of this part works, can you take afew measurements of the performance of speechd, both with and without the pipewire support enabled? I'm primarily interested in the situations I mentioned before, especially the latency, does well under load and consumes less resources aspect.

For anyone who sees this, can I please have a boost? :p it would be incredibly helpful for me to know if this improved anything, even if one bit, and if it was worth going on and on about latency improvements regarding pipewire. I tried to do local tests with sound first, the results were positive, and so was my experience with using speech dispatcher with this module enabled. It could be because of my older computer, but I definitely feel a difference, although not a huge one. If there are other bottlenecks, I'm not sure they're in audio anymore, unless my code is flawed, which could definitely be and a deeper review on that by someone who knows audio stuff better than me should probably be done at some point, but I'm trying to get an inkling into the benefits this had, if any.
#linux #pipewire #archlinux #statistics

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PipeWire 1.4 Is Out with RISC-V Support, MIDI2 Support, JACK Control API, and More

Highlights of PipeWire 1.4 include support for the RISC-V CPU architecture, a PipeWire JACK control API, DSD playback for the ALSA plugin, a system service for pipewire-pulse, Bluetooth support for BAP broadcast links, support for hearing aids using ASHA, a new G722 codec, and UMP (aka MIDI2) support.

9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-4-is-…
#Musicproduction #Pipewire #Midi2 #RiscV

The #linuxdaw library continues to grow, reflecting the development of #linuxaudio as a platform. Not only is the range of native #linux #plugin (s) growing, but also the maturity of #pipewire and #linuxdesktop itself. Truly amazing times for #musicproduction with this popular #opensource #operatingsystem.
https://linuxdaw.org/
PD: @alf Nice addition with the #clap, #lv2, #vst, etc. icons!

#PipeWire 1.4 Is Out with RISC-V Support, MIDI2 Support, JACK Control API, and More https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-4-is-out-with-risc-v-support-midi2-support-jack-control-api-and-more

@pipewire #Linux #OpenSource

So here's the thing: I'd really love to use #Ardour for my next album, cause I don't want to continue working with something from a company sucking up to America's regime

Only problem is: I can't

I'm using 3 different audio interfaces via #pipewire 1.2.4, and Ardour keeps on forgetting USB audio and MIDI connections over restarts (or suspends), forcing me to make each connection again, which sucks.

First person to solve this for me gets a present and a special credit in the liner notes.
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I‘m heads down in planning a new project for later this year…while I’m setting up a full #foss #audio system based on #debian, I was asking myself #Jack or #pipewire ?? I will be live playing with #TidalCyles and #supercollier, so no recording…what’s your thoughts?

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Coming soon: #Linux Kernel 6.13.2, #PipeWire 1.3.82 & #Python 3.13! https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/Z4GBJPYANFF4KQ2FL4NKPHNRNMLOCPMG/

Still using PulseAudio? Here is an introduction to @pipewire to get you familiar with how it works.

https://fedoramagazine.org/introduction-to-pipewire/