Audio Popping on EOS Gnome

Hi, AMD Ryzen 7800x3D, AMD 6900XT here, kernel open source GPU drivers, as of fairly recently I’m getting audio popping & crackling, first it was in wine applications which seemed sort of anomalous, but now I’m getting it everywhere. I fixed this temporarily with,

sudo pacman -Syu pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber

Followed by,

systemctl --user restart pipewire
systemctl --user restart wireplumber

Followed by a reboot.

But now it’s just back. It’s back yet again. This is the second or maybe third distro I’ve had to deal with this on, all of them running pipewire-pulse. It’s also not a hardware issue because I was able to capture the sounds via Audacity which means it’s not just an audio cable or speaker issue, it’s something in software.

I adjusted every single setting in alsamixer and pavucontrol in some vain attempt to see if anything in there could possibly fix it but to no avail.

I am seeing there’s a lot of other people with different audio issues too here, and I saw it suggested that there was a pipewire update recently and it might be a regression so downgrading might help, but I dunno how to do that or if that’s even a good idea.

I have a feeling if I just run the above commands again, it’ll give me good results for another couple days but I am tired of this issue and I want a permanent solution. I don’t want to have to reboot or stop what I’m doing to run pacman reinstalls every time my audio drivers starts falling apart.

Any suggestions? Anyone else ever have this issue?

Im at work so I cant look but alsamixer has gain settings. Its been a while but I think I solved sound popping by making sure all gains were in a neutral position.

Oh hey there, I appreciate the response. I actually never thought anything of the alsamixer gain settings, I guess I can try it. I now have set everything to 0.00dB gain. The only thing is PCM seems to shift a little, fluctuating between a low minus gain and neutral every time I alter my volume level… so yeah I wonder if that might have something to do with it.

I have two stereo speakers that go to a stereo amp on my desk which goes to my PC, so… for troubleshooting. I can set everything to neutral dB in alsamixer, and then use that, altering sound level on physical hardware, which shouldn’t disturb my alsamixer configuration.

I hope that isn’t a solution because that would be stupid and annoying that I can’t do it in software…

Just of curiosity, are you having this with wired connected speakers or with bluetooth connected speakers since I am not experiencing this with my sound but I am not using bluetooth devices that’s why I am asking?

I don’t use bluetooth anything, except for my PS4 controller.

So if you plug regular headphones instead of amp / speaker setup, it also happens?