Pipewire bluetooth audio stuttering

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Pipewire works fine about 40% of the time with my bluetooth headset (sony wh1000xm4) but the other times there is a lot of stuttering, artifacting and other audio issues. Audio usually also takes a few seconds to start but still is in sync with the video or game.

I tried switching to pulse but there my headset doesnt even show up anymore and before couldnt select the correct codec.

I have followed this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA5GAPKQOBk
and some of the arch wiki pages.

I am a linux newbie and if anyone can help me solve this issue would be appreciated

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Hi! Which pages?

Did you try changing codec / profile in pavucontrol?
Do you have more Bluetooth devices?

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Yes, I tried changing the codec/profile to ones my headset supports, I do have other bluetooth devices and it has the same problem.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Troubleshooting
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/bluetooth_headset
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/bluetooth#Troubleshooting (also checked the forum for the updated commands)

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Hmm…

Did you try to exclude your setup? Like no loose cables next to PC, other bluetooth devices turned off? Maybe it is some interferrence.

If not, I would try blueman program, it shows more practical info.

If other devices have same problem - this is crucial part of information.

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I installed blueman and this is the device info.

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I do have build in bluetooth on both my motherboard and a wifi/bluetooth card (forgot about this myself, Archer TX50E AX3000 Wifi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 PCIe-adapter)

I do have some loose cables but that has never been a issue in the past. I removed them just in case.

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Well, well, well.

Then start small from the scratch. If issue is reproducible when you use only internal bluetooth adapter with 1 sound device connected with Archer disconnected.

Then disable onboard (in bios? keyboard shortcut?) and switch to Archer.

What is your desktop environment? If Gnome, maybe this will help: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-bluetooth#multiple-bluetooth-adapters

Once you have some minimal reproduction steps, post output of this command:

inxi -Ebz

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First I unplugged my wifi/bluetooth addon, and the issues remained. Then I tried disabling the onboard which seemed to fix it all! I think my onboard is just bad or broken.

Thank you so much for your help

edit: after rebooting my monitor sound stopped working.
edit: fixed it again, Had to switch on another HDMI output to make it discoverable again. How can I set the profile as fixed?

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There are some bugs there with profile switching. Review latest threads in forum with HDMI :slight_smile: Glad you found probable reason :slight_smile:

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