thank you Linux for giving a damn about Bluetooth headphones

denny@feddit.de to Linux@lemmy.ml – 957 points –

For context, LDAC is one of the few wireless audio codecs stamped Hi-Res by the Japan Audio Society and its encoder is open source since Android 8, so you can see just how long Windows is sleeping on this. I'm excited about the incoming next gen called LC3plus, my next pair is definitely gonna have that.

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if your distro is not using Pipewire youre using a shitty one

I'm so confused, please don't confused a new linux user it doesn't help me

You can find out if you have pipewire or pulseaudio by using pactl info | grep "Server Name"

You lost me

Pulseaudio used to be the standard audio server.Only recently pipewire has been taking its place.

@Simplesyrup @twei@feddit.de

I believe @twei meant, if you open a terminal and put in the following command:
pactl info | grep “Server Name” the output should tell you what sound server you are using.

Or an even better and less nerdy was is just using. System taskmaster and seeing pipewire

Not better. There is no way to know if you have "System Taskmaster" installed, as I have never heard of software named that, and their process is system agnostic.

I mean task manger, but on my distro it's just system

Pulseaudio and pipewire are kind of like audio drivers (not exactly but anyway). Let's say you're running spotify and discord. They both send their audio to pipewire. You can then use pipewire to control how loud each one is. It also supports more complex use cases like if you're streaming, you can hook up the spotify output and your microphone mixed together into discord's input so that the mixed audio will be streamed.

Pipewire is newer and basically replaces another system called jack that did the same thing for pulseaudio.