Pulseeffects wont start on login, sound mutes when pulseeffects closes

[Scotty_p]

Hello, I downloaded z16 core on my hp elitebook 845 G7 a few weeks ago, everything is running great except the sound, it was very tinny with almost no lows or mids when listening to spotify, youtube, etc.

I downloaded pulseeffects and have set it up so that I like the sound on one of my presets, and have toggled on start service at login, however, it doesn't. I still get tinny sound until I open pulseeffects and when I close it but continue with spotify or youtube the sound cuts off a few seconds later.

Looking for any solution that allows me to have good sound as soon as I startup, without an app running in the background, does not have to include pulseeffects, or could be a fix for it.

[Scotty_p]

Also wondering if this tutorial would help?

[How to] Play High Resolution Audio on Linux

This is a tip for audiophiles who want to benefit from a maximum capability of sound system in their machine. In its default setting, Linux offers sampling rate at 16 bits/44 kHz. But modern sound cards can do much better than that. In the following tutorial, I will show you how to change this default setting to 32 bit/192 kHz. All you need to do is edit: /etc/pulse/daemon.conf Open this file as a root with your favourite editor. $ sudo mousepad /etc/pulse/daemon.conf Append the followin…

[Scotty_p]

I'm using pulseeffects 4.8.7

[swarfendor437]

Have you considered ditching Pulse for ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)?

[anon6471198]

Starting from basics,

pulseaudio --kill
pulseaudio --start

Also try,

sudo apt install --reinstall lsp-plugins && reboot

or maybe a reset will work,

sudo apt install --reinstall pulseeffects

[Scotty_p]

had not really thought of it, im under the impression pulse is simpler and runs by default.

[Scotty_p]

Thank you for this, no change with any of these commands.

when I run dpkg -s pulseeffects I get this

Package: pulseeffects
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Installed-Size: 5197
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.7.1-2
Depends: gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0, gstreamer1.0-adapter-pulseeffects, gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad, gstreamer1.0-plugins-good, gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio, pulseaudio, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libatkmm-1.6-1v5 (>= 2.24.0), libboost-filesystem1.71.0, libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairomm-1.0-1v5 (>= 1.12.0), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.39.4), libglibmm-2.4-1v5 (>= 2.54.0), libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libgstreamer1.0-0 (>= 1.12.5), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.4), libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 (>= 3.24.0), libpangomm-1.4-1v5 (>= 2.42.0), libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1), libsigc++-2.0-0v5 (>= 2.8.0), libsndfile1 (>= 1.0.20), libstdc++6 (>= 9)
Recommends: calf-plugins (>= 0.90.0), gstreamer1.0-autogain-pulseeffects, gstreamer1.0-convolver-pulseeffects, gstreamer1.0-crystalizer-pulseeffects, liblilv-0-0, mda-lv2, rubberband-ladspa, zam-plugins
Description: Audio effects for PulseAudio applications
PulseEffects is an advanced system-wide equalizer that works with
PulseAudio. It can apply system-wide effects to all running application
or selected apps.
.
PulseEffects also provides many pre-defined sound effects for PulseAudio
input and output.
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org
Homepage: GitHub - wwmm/easyeffects: Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications

Im wondering if it has anything to do with priority being optional?