from a google search: In Debian 10, PipeWire 0.2. 5 is available, and should not need to manually be installed, as it's usually brought in as a dependency by applications that make use of it. In Debian 11, PipeWire 0.3. 19 is available, and can be experimentally used as a substitute for the ALSA userspace library, PulseAudio, and JACK. Apr 5, 2022
then read about WirePlumber. it is time consuming and there are many published instructions, some better than others. WirePlumber and Pipewire are getting frequent upgrades and for me they are increasingly reliable and the sound is really good. my System GTK 3.24.33 / GLib 2.72.1 Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8) Operating System: Linux 5.17.0-2-amd64 (x86_64)