In order to run Ardour on Linux you do NOT need the following things:
- JACK
- PipeWire
- PulseAudio

Use Linux' native drivers called ALSA and off you go.

P.S. You can't watch YouTube anymore when using ALSA with Ardour. Never watched YouTube on my guitar so personally I don't mind.

Nimm #pipewire, haben sie gesagt. Damit wird alles einfacher, haben sie gesagt.

Naja, man ist da sicher auf einem guten Weg. Aber das Jonglieren mit config Dateien und Einstellungen erinnert mich doch etwas daran, wie es vor reichlich zehn Jahren war, wenn man #jack und #pulseaudio zusammenbringen wollte.

Zwar muss jetzt nicht soo viel konfiguriert werden, aber man muss schon ein wenig herumsuchen...

Mit meinem install #Script für das #Audio Zeug hab ich es nun ohne jack versucht. Mal sehen ob es sich mit #ubuntu 24 #Linux bewährt:
https://codeberg.org/cExplorer/install-audio-libs-ubuntu

Dankbar bin ich für Ideen dazu und für Hinweise auf Fehler.

#Ardour #DAW #LinuxAudio

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#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.

No sé si desde ayer o antier, pero estuve teniendo fallas al reproducir vídeos de YouTube en mi computadora. Al principio creí que era por tener uBlock Origin, pero luego me di cuenta que eran todos los vídeos, tanto por internet como incluso los que ya tenía en mi computadora. Y trasteando un poco más, me di cuenta que el problema no eran los vídeos, sino el sonido como tal.

Resulta que desde siempre uso #Linux, pero parece que apenas estos días, los servidores de sonido como #PulseAudio o #ALSA ya no funcionan como tal, y deben ser reemplazados con PipeWire.

Igual y podría haber una solución menos drástica, pero como a mí me funcionó, les paso el dato.

I made a no-dependency client library for PulseAudio in zig called Pulsar. I just released version 0.1.0 https://codeberg.org/desttinghim/pulsar/src/tag/0.1.0
#zig #linux #pulseaudio #programming #opensource

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#PipeWire 1.4.0 has been released (#PulseAudio / #JACK / #JACKAudio / #ALSA / #AdvancedLinuxSoundArchitecture / #GStreamer / #SoundServer / #SoundSystem / #AudioLinux / #VideoServer / #VideoSystem / #VideoLinux / #MultimediaFramework / #FreeDesktop / #RedHat) https://pipewire.org/

Record audio from a microphone on a Linux system using gstreamer @gstreamer @fedora @opensuse @archlinux

gst-launch-1.0 alsasrc ! audioconvert ! lamemp3enc ! filesink location=recorded.mp3

Yet another #debian #linux installation and yet another frantic search for how to remove #pipewire and revert back to #pulseaudio It could be that I'm just getting old & and grumpy, but all these new-fangled, untested & backward-incompatible solutions for problems that don't exist are really beginning to get on my nerves.

APPARENTLY I can #AirPlay my #Linux (#Fedora) machine TO a #Homepod and not the other way around like every tutorial on the Internet shows by using #RAOP.

RAOP seems to be the protocol under AirPlay and it's conveniently integrated into #Pulseaudio and #Pipewire.

HOWEVER, I manage to connect to my Homepod, but the audio has a 2-0.5s delay and is making my head ache

Pipewire (or, more accurately, its use of Pulse) has been problematic for some time, often selecting an HDMI output rather than stereo audio via the on-board sound device, then I found this somewhere (didn't note where):

load-module module-remap-sink sink_name=stereo-downmix master=alsa_card.pci-0000_2a_00.4.analog-stereo channels=6 master_channel_map=front-left,front-left,front-right,front-right,front-left,front-right channel_map=front-left,center,center,front-right,rear-left,rear-right

Change the ‘master’ parameter to match your hardware (as I did, using the PCI address of the on-board HD audio controller), stick that line in /etc/pulse/default.pa (or, presumably, ~/.config/pulse/default.pa), restart the sound server and all should be well.

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[2025-02-16 Japan]
#alsa と #pulseaudio に加えて #PipeWire なる存在が登場してるみたい。そしてなんだか不具合を起こしてます、面倒だなぁ... #Linux 6.1.0-30-amd64 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC #Debian 6.1.124-1 (2025-01-12) x86_64 GNU/Linux #xfce4 4.18 #pavucontrol

Just wondering if there are any #linux users around with good experience with #pulseaudio .

Having an issue with some headset mics where the audio keeps dropping out from optimal 50-60% down to 25-30% and therefore having to re-adjust the mic volume in pulse audio volume control all the time. However I set it, it keeps dropping down.

I've been using Linux on my desktop for nearly 30 years and i still don't understand how to get sound working properly and reliably.

Searching for some kind of distro-agnostic 2025 Linux audio general best practices guide... What should I be using (ALSA, jack, pulse, pipewire?), how can I configure multiple sound devices (onboard, HDMI, USB, Bluetooth), set my preferred inputs and outputs and levels on each, toggle between them properly, and have those settings persist after logout, reboot, or removal/addition of devices?