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Enable PipeWire on Ubuntu 21.10
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Enable PipeWire on Ubuntu 21.10

Ubuntu 21.10 has PipeWire partially installed and enabled as it's used by browsers (WebRTC) for recoding the screeen under Wayland. We can enable remaining parts and use it for audio and Bluetooth instead of PulseAudio.

This guide is only for original Ubuntu out-of-the-box packages. If you have added a custom PPA, you might get into conflicts.

Based on the Debian Wiki, but adopted for Ubuntu 21.10.

Install

Install Bluetooth codecs AAC/LDAC/AptX:

$ sudo apt install \
  libfdk-aac2 \
  libldacbt-{abr,enc}2 \
  libopenaptx0

Install remaining PipeWire packages:

$ sudo apt install \
  libspa-0.2-bluetooth \
  pipewire-audio-client-libraries \
  pipewire-pulse

ALSA

Create this empty file:

$ sudo touch /usr/share/pipewire/with-alsa

Copy the config file from the PipeWire examples into your ALSA configuration directory:

$ sudo cp /usr/share/doc/pipewire/examples/alsa.conf.d/99-pipewire-default.conf /etc/alsa/conf.d/

PulseAudio

Everything was already done by the pipewire-pulse package.

Bluetooth

Remove this package and Bluetooth will be handled by PipeWire:

$ sudo apt remove pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

Reboot

Reboot and check if it works by running:

$ LANG=C pactl info | grep '^Server Name'
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