[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1106569: pipewire: Audio intermittently crackles and distorts severely specifically on Trixie with Pipewire

[J.P. Lien]

I've had a similar issue since upgrading from bookworm to trixie.  Intermittent distortion (high frequency glitches mostly) on all audio.  For me restarting pipewire with `systemctl restart --user pipewire` fixes the issue until the next reboot.  So it seems to be some kind of problem with startup order or initialization.

I don't see any errors in the pipewire journal or dmesg.

J.P.