Sometimes listening isn't enough. Had to go into a video conference yesterday. Listening to music on my #Librem5 worked fine, but when I tried to get audio in the conference I remembered that my desktop is broken, because of this #Debian #Bookworm #Pipewire issue I wrote about.
I had to ask the other participants to wait, because I'd need to restart my desktop to get sound. Not funny if connected with people partly working on Apple devices.
#Workaround time: the major problem at the time being in my use case seems to be #Mozilla #Firefox and #Thunderbird leaving sockets to pipewire-#pulseaudio open.
I now run them using PULSE-SERVER=unix:/dev/null <program>
and it seems they really do not connect to pipewire-pulse anymore and therefor can't leave its sockets open.
No sound in #Mozilla apps is o.k. - I can always run #ungoogled-#chromium if I need a page deliver sound.
Uhm, I'm listening to #InternetRadio using my #Librem5 while on my #notebook at my desk. Why?
There's this bug letting pipewire-pulse fail, because too many connections are open.
I didn't find a way to have the #Shortwave #Flatpak play directly using pipewire.
Nice to have the same software stack on my mobile phone which now is connected to my usb speakers.