On 26/05/2021 09:15, Frank Elsner via users wrote:
Hi,
I'm a podcaster and therefore I need a functional audio environment. Currently I use pulseaudio on a Fedora 33 system. Works for me.
Will this also work if I upgrade to Fedora 34?
Is there an equivalent to pavucontrol? I need it to adjust the level of my external audio interface?
I'm heavy interested in any experience - especially pitfalls - before I start the upgrade.
When I upgraded from F32 to F33 pulseaudio changed from something with a few quirks, to something very troublesome. The main issue was I had to restart pulseaudio several times after logging in before it would actually find my audio devices. I found the cure was to switch to pipewire. The main long term quirk I had with pulseaudio was that sometimes starting an app, particularly chrome, would make the sound distort, and pulseaudio had to be restarted to recover from this. I haven't seen this problem since changing to pipewire. pipewire does seem to show up in a "top" report as using a bit more CPU. This might be because it is mixing in floating point, or because it just hasn't been that well optimised so far, but its CPU load is only a few percent.
I have not used the jack side of pipewire. I have no idea how well that works.