Installing Pipewire on Linux Fedora.

The sound was much better installing Pipewire. Before Pipewire I always thought the sound was shallow and flat.

I upgraded to Fedora 34 but it seemed like Pipewire wasn’t working. I checked with this:

$ pactl info

With output:

Server Name: PulseAudio

The Pipewire documentation says that it needs to show:

Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.X)

I checked that Pipewire was installed. This produced an output:

$ pipewire --version

I checked this but it showed it was already installed:

$ sudo dnf install pipewire

I was missing this package:

$ sudo dnf install --allowerasing pipewire-pulseaudio

Start the service:

$ systemctl --user start pipewire-pulse.service pipewire-pulse.socket

Output:

Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 34
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 127
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: tom
Host Name: dev
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.26)
Server Version: 14.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right

Issues

I am having an issue with the volume bar. I can move the bar to the left, but it will go mute at this point, and not decrease the volume. Not sure if this is a Pipewire issue.

Fedora 34 Pipewire volume problem

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