On Tue, Jun 17, 2025, at 5:11 AM, Kenshiro [] wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Some of us still prefer PulseAudio. Could the default MATE Desktop
> installation continue to use it, or at least offer it as an option?
>
> The “audiophile” configuration provides very good audio quality, but the
> current defaults are much lower. You might consider applying these settings
> by default (or suggesting them upstream to the PulseAudio maintainers):
>
> ; PulseAudio “audiophile” settings
> default-sample-format = s24le
> default-sample-rate = 44100
> alternate-sample-rate = 48000
> avoid-resampling = true
> resample-method = speex-float-5
>
>
It should be possible to have mate-desktop-environment-core depend on either
pipewire-audio or pulseaudio, so that the user can choose which they prefer.
Installing either package will fix alsa recordign and playback which is the
original reason I filed this bug. I am happy letting the package maintainers
choose the default, based on what they think is best. When the default changed
occurred downstream of mate in libcanberra-pulse, I personally chose to stick
with pipewire because I noticed that it offered Jack support, as well as
improved bluetooth support which are both benefits in my workflow.
