[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1036586: pipewire-pulse: Music garbled, faint, and generally unusable when switching from pulseaudio to pipewire-pulse

[Nathanael Nerode]

Package: pipewire-pulse
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: ncn_floss10 at fastmail.fm

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
Switching from pulseaudio daemon to pipewire-pulse
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
Switching from pulseaudio daemon to pipewire-pulse
   * What was the outcome of this action?
Music, using Audacious or anything else, breaks.  It's garbled and faint.  Doesn't matter whether I use the "pulseaudio"
backend in audacious (now feeding through pipewire) or the direct "Pipewire" backend.
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
Music keeps sounding normal

Music sounds fine if I uninstall pipewire-pulse and reinstall pulseaudio. (Which I did before filing this bug.)

This is pretty weird.  It renders pipewire unusable for me.  I've never had a previous sound system change break
catastrophically like this, so it seems like there's some really serious problem in pipewire.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'unstable')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pipewire-pulse depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.65.2
pn  pipewire             <none>

Versions of packages pipewire-pulse recommends:
pn  wireplumber | pipewire-media-session-pulseaudio  <none>

Versions of packages pipewire-pulse suggests:
pn  libspa-0.2-bluetooth  <none>
ii  pulseaudio-utils      16.1+dfsg1-2+b1