I'm very new to both Linux and Zorin and heard about this new multimedia processing project called PipeWire which is looking to bring together pulseaudio and JACK.
Any idea what this could mean for audio handling down the road and if Zorin would be able to adopt it?
With how little I know, it does sound very promising, being a guitarist using Reaper myself.
I'd love for it to be included by default too. In the meantime, I found a guide to use Pipewire on Zorin that I pulled from r/pop_os:
# Add ppa for latest build
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream
# Update
sudo apt update
# Install components
sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-pipewire pipewire-media-session libspa-0.2-bluetooth libspa-0.2-jack pipewire pipewire-audio-client-libraries
# If you get unmet dependencies, you can run:
sudo apt --fix-broken install
# Then re-run
sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-pipewire pipewire-media-session libspa-0.2-bluetooth libspa-0.2-jack pipewire pipewire-audio-client-libraries
# Reload new services
systemctl --user daemon-reload
# Disable PulseAudio service
systemctl --user --now disable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket
# If you update from previous version of PopOS
systemctl --user mask pulseaudio
# Enable Pipewire services
systemctl --user --now enable pipewire pipewire-pulse
# Enable Pipewire media session
systemctl --user --now enable pipewire-media-session.service
# Reboot and possibly use https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/906/sound-output-device-chooser/
Haven't tried this setup with Reaper yet but it's been working great so far otherwise.
This would be nice, I've heard good things about PipeWire.
So i installed pipewire without any issues
I am facing one issue - whenever i wake up my laptop from sleep and connect bluetooth, media doesn't play or sound output drops, only way to fix this is to disconnect headphones and reconnect again
Is there anything that can be done to fix this ?
I've been having this too, I think it's a limitation of Pipewire and how it handles laptop sleep states. My laptop's processor can't even go into sleep on Zorin properly at all because of a Linux kernel issue with Intel 11th gen.
I think you'll have to live with it for now until Zorin decides to officially support Pipewire instead of Pulseaudio
In other words... must Live with Pulseaudio...
(ugh)