On Tue, Jun 17, 2025, at 6:39 AM, Brandon Werner wrote:
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> 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.
Stating this a little more clearly: It should be possible to have
mate-desktop-environment-core depend on both pipewire-audio and pulseaudio
using alternative dependencies (|), 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.
