Subject: bug#74863: 31.0.50; Problems with play-sound on MS-Windows

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:35:46 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Should we add support for PipeWire on GNU/Linux?

ALSA clients can be configured to output via PipeWire, and the Pipewire
project itself recommends staying with the ALSA API, at least for now:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ#what-audio-api-do-you-recommend-to-use

> I don't know what PipeWire is, so I have no opinion on this.

It's a new multimedia server that replaces both Pulse Audio and JACK.
AFAIK, it's the default sound server on Debian when using Gnome, and on
Fedora 34.