{"id":39106,"date":"2022-04-24T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=39106"},"modified":"2024-02-04T01:22:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T01:22:06","slug":"pipewire-replace-pulseaudio-ubuntu-2204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2022\/04\/pipewire-replace-pulseaudio-ubuntu-2204\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use PipeWire to replace PulseAudio in Ubuntu 22.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ubuntu 22.04 has better support for the low latency PipeWire multimedia framework. Here’s how to setup it for PulseAudio, ALSA, JACK and Bluetooth output.<\/p>\n

Firstly, Pipewire is pre-installed out-of-the-box, and runs as background service automatically. You may check it out by running command below in terminal:<\/p>\n

systemctl --user status pipewire pipewire-session-manager<\/pre>\n
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PipeWire installed out-of-the-box<\/p><\/div>\n
IMPORTANT: This is NOT officially supported by Ubuntu so far. It still may not work on some devices. Don’t do it on production machine!<\/b><\/p>\n
Step 1: install client libraries<\/h3>\n
Though available out-of-the-box, it’s not in use by default for audio output. To get start, first press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal, and run command to install client libraries:<\/p>\n
sudo apt install pipewire-audio-client-libraries libspa-0.2-bluetooth libspa-0.2-jack<\/pre>\n
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Step 2: install wireplumber to replace pipewire-media-session<\/h3>\n
The project maintainer now recommends more advanced “wireplumber<\/a>” session manager when to use Pipewire as system sound server.<\/b><\/p>\n
To install the package and remove “pipewire-media-session”, run the command below in terminal:<\/p>\n
sudo apt install wireplumber pipewire-media-session-<\/pre>\n
NOTE: there’s a ‘-‘ in the end of the command indicates to remove the package. The command will also install the required pipewire-pulse automatically.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Step 3: Copy configuration files:<\/h3>\n
wireplumber makes things quite easy! If you just want to replace PulseAudio with Pipewire, enable the media session service and restart and that’s all!!<\/p>\n
For ALSA clients to be configured to output via PipeWire, run command to copy the configure file:<\/p>\n
sudo cp \/usr\/share\/doc\/pipewire\/examples\/alsa.conf.d\/99-pipewire-default.conf \/etc\/alsa\/conf.d\/<\/pre>\n
For JACK client, run command:<\/p>\n
sudo cp \/usr\/share\/doc\/pipewire\/examples\/ld.so.conf.d\/pipewire-jack-*.conf \/etc\/ld.so.conf.d\/<\/pre>\n
And then sudo ldconfig<\/code>.<\/p>\n
For Bluetooth, just remove the pulseaudio-module-bluetooth package via command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt remove pulseaudio-module-bluetooth<\/pre>\n
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And, finally enable the media session by running command:<\/p>\n
systemctl --user --now enable wireplumber.service<\/pre>\n
Step 4: Verify<\/h3>\n
After restarted Ubuntu 22.04<\/b>, run the command below in terminal.<\/p>\n
pactl info<\/pre>\n
It should output Sound server: PulseAudio (on PipeWire x.x.x) indicates Pipewire is in use as sound output.<\/p>\n
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How to Restore:<\/h3>\n
To undo the changes, firstly remove the client libraries via command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt remove pipewire-audio-client-libraries libspa-0.2-bluetooth libspa-0.2-jack<\/pre>\n
Remove wireplumber and install back the previous media session package (there’s also ‘-‘ in the end):<\/p>\n
sudo apt install pipewire-media-session wireplumber-<\/pre>\n
Finally, re-enable pipewire-media-session service by running commands:<\/p>\n
rm -f ~\/.config\/systemd\/user\/pipewire-session-manager.service<\/pre>\n
systemctl --user --now enable pipewire-media-session<\/pre>\n
Thanks to @lestcape, if sound’s still not working, try to disable pipewire-pulse services via command:<\/p>\n
systemctl --user --now disable pipewire-pulse.service pipewire-pulse.socket<\/pre>\n
If you tried to enabled it globally, also disable it via command:<\/p>\n
sudo systemctl --global --now disable pipewire-pulse.service pipewire-pulse.socket<\/pre>\n
And re-enable the original pulseaudio service via command:<\/p>\n
systemctl --user --now reenable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket<\/pre>\n
sudo systemctl --global --now reenable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ubuntu 22.04 has better support for the low latency PipeWire multimedia framework. Here’s how to setup it for PulseAudio, ALSA, JACK and Bluetooth output. Firstly, Pipewire is pre-installed out-of-the-box, and runs as background service automatically. You may check it out by running command below in terminal: systemctl –user status pipewire pipewire-session-manager IMPORTANT: This is NOT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2031],"class_list":["post-39106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-pipewire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}