Sound randomly disappears, the player needs to be disabled for it to come back

[Slater91]

EasyEffects Version

7.1.6

What package are you using?

Flatpak (Flathub)

Distribution

KDE neon (Ubuntu 22.04)

Describe the bug

With Easy Effects open, at seemingly random moments, the sound disappears. Checking Easy Effects shows that the visualiser is inactive (i.e. like when nothing is playing). The player appears as enabled, but unchecking the box so that it is disabled seems to actually restore functionality and the sound comes back. I have seen this specifically with Strawberry and Firefox.

Expected Behavior

If the player is enabled, it plays sound.

Debug Log

No response

Additional Information

Here is the output of pw-dot.

pw-dot-20240508.txt

[wwmm]

The player appears as enabled, but unchecking the box so that it is disabled seems to actually restore functionality and the sound comes back.

This feels like some issue in PipeWire or WirePlumber. Which version do you have installed? Ubuntu users need to install a more recent PipeWire/WirePlumber through a PPA. The one from the stable repositories is too old and does not work with the latest EasyEffects releases.

[Slater91]

Sorry, I forgot to specify that. PipeWire 1.0.3, WirePlumber 0.4.8, both installed through a PPA. Not the latest strictly, but close enough!

[wwmm]

PipeWire 1.0.3, WirePlumber 0.4.8

This PipeWire version should be fine. I am not sure about the one for wireplumber. I have 0.5.2 here on Arch Linux.

Although EasyEffects does not interact directly with WirePlumber the PipeWire functions we call when moving players to our virtual sink are directly related to WirePlumber. Usually when something in this area is not working properly the reason is a bug in WirePlumber.

Kill EasyEffects and restart it in debug mode https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects/wiki/Reporting-Bugs#basic-logs so we can see if there are error messages when the enable checkbox state switches between on and off.