Sound issue

[arctic current]

Apparently my earphones are connected ( bluetooth ) but they arent being recognised as sound output device, I was having this issue earlier today with my inbuilt speakers too which was fixed with a reboot somehow

[mild linden]

u prbly dont have libspa-bluetooth or whatever its called installed which u need for bluetooth audio

do u know if ur using pipewire or pulseaudio?

[arctic current]

pipewire

[mild linden]

hmm nvm it seems on arch it uses pipewire-pulse for bluetooth support

[arctic current]

yea

it was working fine earlier

[mild linden]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Bluetooth_devices i assume u have already tried all of this?

[arctic current]

I tried rolling through a few snapshots but it was of no avail

[arctic current]

yes

[mild linden]

interesting

i think systemd handles wireplumber and such at a user level??

perhaps dig through it and make sure its all enabled properly?

thats just a guess tho

its a pain coz i dont use systemd i just have manual starting of pipewire

[arctic current]

lemme check

[mild linden]

is there any way u can get a list of all ur audio sources and sinks from the terminal?

perhaps if ur headphones show up there and not in a gui selector that could narrow down the problem?

[arctic current]

what is it called

[arctic current]

these?

[mild linden]

idk maybe

[arctic current]

here are my sinks

[mild linden]

hmm yeah the bluetooth headphones just arent in there huh

i assume u have another headset that isnt bluetooth connected too right?

[arctic current]

I dont rn

[mild linden]

do u know what sink #3 is then?

[arctic current]

thats my inbuilt speaker

[mild linden]

ah i see

[arctic current]

@mild linden it worked after a reboot now I am facing a different issue, there was no audio initially from applications only system sounds

[mild linden]

hmm i see

initially? so is it working now?

[arctic current]

yea but

I have to select the output source manually

from here I have to select either my earphones or speakers

it used to default to my headphones by priority earlier

[mild linden]

so does it just not select anything by default for application sounds?

[arctic current]

yea

system sounds is alright

[mild linden]

i mean on one hand u could just hope it sorts itself out like the other issue did? on the other hand does it remember the audio output u selected when u restart the application and/or when u reboot again?

[arctic current]

it does not

it used to work alright without selecting earlier

[mild linden]

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=243516 does this look like it could be helpful?

[arctic current]

fun

the earphones are working

but arent listed as a playback device

😭

[mild linden]

qwq