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m4gethecat

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Registered: 2026-09-04

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USB Microphone not working on Pipewire

My USB microphone on pipewire is being weirdly intermittent. Pipewire recognizes the device as a source. It shows up in qpwgraph, but when I try to use it in any program or pipe it to monitor, there is no audio. Yesterday, I followed this (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=307066) forum thread, which seemed to fix it, but its back to not working. I have edited /usr/share/pipewire/pipewire.conf to have

default.clock.rate 441000
default.clock.min-quantum 128

but these don't seem to work. I also wrote the udev rule mentioned, but since deleted it out of concern that it may have been causing an issue. pipewire.socket pipewire.service pipewire-pulse.socket pipewire-pulse.service wireplumber.service are all enabled and running. No amount of restarting units or rebooting seems to have an impact on this, either in making it work or not.

Last edited by m4gethecat (2026-09-04 17:43:26)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: USB Microphone not working on Pipewire

Anything in dmesg/journal/pipewire logs when seeing this error? Are there similar probing errors as in the linked thread? And make sure you're fully up to date, there's been a bunch of USB audio subsystem fixes in 7.2.3 and wireplumber 0.5.17

m4gethecat

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Registered: 2026-09-04

Posts: 2

Re: USB Microphone not working on Pipewire

No relevant logs in any of those places. Wireplumber was on 0.5.17, and updating linux to 7.2.3 did not help. I didn't have any probing issues, but the advice in that thread seemed to be the only thing that fixed it.