Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ruszki 934 days ago
I’ve not seen a single application yet, which handles audio system failures properly when it happens during runtime, and most of them fails even when it happens before starting them. And it’s quite frequent unfortunately with my gazillion different Bluetooth and wired headsets across multiple laptops. It’s definitely not Firefox specific. It’s basically standard.
1 comments

There's probably something to blame in pipewire/fedora's configuration.

I know that at least Pulseaudio has a "null" output driver, so if the audio hardware suddenly disappears, at least under PA it's possible to have applications happily deliver audio into the void without noticing a thing, and then switch back to hardware when it comes back.

I'm not sure if Pipewire deals with this worse or just isn't configured right.