Easy Effects Source puts out nothing

[bengineer8]

EasyEffects Version

8.1.2

What package are you using?

Arch (easyeffects)

Distribution

Mint

Describe the bug

All applications are unable to get anything out of Easy Effects Source. I am just trying to do a simple pitch shift.

Expected Behavior

No response

Debug Log

Debug Log

Paste your log here

Additional Information

No response

[bengineer8]

Where can I get a version from 2 years ago?

[wwmm]

Some combinations of audio player + easyeffects got broken after Pipewire 1.6. And if that is what is happening to you using an order version is unlikely to help. THat being said if you are willing to compile a package yourself you can try one of our older tags https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects/tags

[bengineer8]

So, I should instead be downgrading pipewire?

[wwmm]

So, I should instead be downgrading pipewire?

IF that fixes the problem is something to consider. But it would only be delaying the inevitable. I have been talking to pipewire developers in other to solve the issues discussed at #4920. But so far no good solution.

[bengineer8]

What did Pipe wire change? Please get this working, you are the only good working voice changer on Linux...
Help me wwmm, you are my only hope.

[wwmm]

What did Pipe wire change?

I do not know the details. But we use passive links in EasyEffects and on PipeWire 1.6 passive links are not allowing audio to be played in some cases. In EasyEffects 8.1.4 I added a workaround. But as it can be seen in the discussion at #4920 there are still some problems related to dynamic sampling rate switching.

What is strange in your case is that no app works. As far as I can see the microphone pipeline is fine when using Firefox or command line tools like gst-launch-1.0. I did not test others. Which applications did you try?

[bengineer8]

OBS and Discord.

[bengineer8]

Firefox also doesn't hear anything from Easy Effects Source.

[wwmm]

Firefox also doesn't hear anything from Easy Effects Source.

Something different than the latest events must be happening on your side. A few days ago I used Firefox and EasyEffects in a MS teams meeting without problems. Kill EasyEffects easyeffects -q and restart it in debug mode easyeffects --debug. After that try to use your microphone on Firefox. Let's see if there is useful information in the logs.

[bengineer8]

"easyeffects: command not found"

[bengineer8]

Where I got it: Software Manager

[wwmm]

You probably have a flatpak package. In this case follow the instructions at https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects/wiki/Reporting-Bugs#basic-logs

[bengineer8]

Update: I nuked and redid my entire distro install and it works now, case closed.

[wwmm]

Ok. Let's close this issue.