[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1036586: pipewire-pulse makes audio playback all crackly

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM Martin Guy <martinwguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not having as bad an experience with pipewire-pulse as others,
> but all programs that prefer pulse to alsa, like SoX, worked fine last
> Debian release but now are unusable for playback because the audio
> comes out crackly, as if it had lots of tiny gaps in it.

Please report a new bug. I'm guessing you're using Debian 13 and are
saying that things worked fine for you in Debian 12. The bug you are
replying to was about things not working well on that particular
system with Debian 12 and the bug is 2.5 years old. Please mention
what desktop you are using and what specific apps don't work right
with specific test case instructions. Please include as much detail as
you can about your hardware.

Even then, these kinds of bugs are difficult to fix since the upstream
developers may want you to test with the latest kernel and the latest
versions of pipewire and related software which isn't already
available for Debian Stable.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha