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Sorry but pipewire is shit and it works with Wayland (didn't see anything Wayland uses pulseaudio) and I believe Wayland still not ready for use, It's unstable for me because pipewire crackling like fire
I understood you and had the same issue. I solved it by using an Apple USBC to mini jack audio device instead of onboard. Not ideal. Not sure if it’s still a problem though.
Edit. My mistake I had the problem with Pulse not Pipewire.
Pipewire works fine on my Intel 5960x, Intel N3700, Intel 9900k, Intel 9700, AMD 4800HS and even my Intel ES Erying system. No pops or crackles from any inputs or outputs.
I've not tried with a dedicated sound card, just the onboard on all these systems.
Running KDE on one system along with Hyprland on another two with the remainder as headless systems.
You sure this issue isn't somehow related to your hardware or something else?
No, pulseaudio working fine but pipewire isn't, it's a spare old PC HP COMPAQ 6005 pro SFF with AMD Phenom II X4 B97 ram 8GB ddr3 and its sound card SBx00 AZALIA Intel HDA
Pipewire crackling while pulseaudio working without problems
Unsure if the issue is fixed upstream in the kernel however there are a few topics going in depth about this issue with some reported fixes / workarounds.