Pipewire as a replacement for Pulse Audio?

[Member meurglys]

Wondering if anyone is playing around with pipewire, as a potential replacement for pulse audio. As it stands now, I’m still using ALSA for my sound needs, but the one program I like to use, tuxguitar, requires pulseaudio. I have in the past, used PA on antiX to get it working, but have read about pipewire-pulse perhaps being a way around it,

So far, in the repos, I’ve only seen the pipewire package.

From what I’ve read it sounds promising, and less buggy or intrusive than pulseaudio.

Any thoughts?

[Anonymous]

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tuxguitar, requires pulseaudio

? ? ?

[Member meurglys]

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meurglys@ma3a:~
$ tuxguitar

(TuxGuitar:6938): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:23:07.163: Negative content height -1 (allocation 1, extents 1×1) while allocating gadget (node scrolledwindow, owner GtkScrolledWindow)

** (TuxGuitar:6938): CRITICAL **: 20:23:12.943: JNI method ID pointer is NULL for method gObjectClass_finalize

** (TuxGuitar:6938): CRITICAL **: 20:23:12.944: JNI method ID pointer is NULL for method gObjectClass_finalize

** (TuxGuitar:6938): CRITICAL **: 20:23:12.944: JNI method ID pointer is NULL for method gObjectClass_finalize

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: gObjectClass_finalize
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.GTK._gtk_widget_destroy(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.GTK.gtk_widget_destroy(GTK.java:8155)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.destroyWidget(Widget.java:487)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.release(Widget.java:1213)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.release(Control.java:4164)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.dispose(Widget.java:522)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.dispose(Shell.java:2897)
at org.herac.tuxguitar.community.startup.TGCommunityStartupScreen$2.widgetSelected(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:252)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:89)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:5663)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1386)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4931)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:4472)
at org.herac.tuxguitar.gui.TuxGuitar.displayGUI(Unknown Source)
at org.herac.tuxguitar.gui.TGMain.main(Unknown Source)
meurglys@ma3a:~
$

Proogram crashes using this older version. I was using the 1.5.4 version from the tuxguitar website, but have to use PA to run it.

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Okay, well, at least we know that tuxguitar-alsa exists
so a next step would be to search for a newer compatible version
at ??? AUR, or https://pkgs.org, or https://repology.org/ or https://launchpad.net or https://sourceforge.net…

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I managed to get sound out of TuxGuitar (1.5.6) through alsa neither using pulseaudio nor tuxguitar-alsa.

All you have to do is activate & configure “FluidSynth output plugin”.

Then select “TG FLuidsynth” as MIDI Port in Tools –> Settings –> Sound.

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