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easyeffects
Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
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TinyGo
Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM.
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JUCE
JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins.
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turso
A SQL database in Rust: SQLite-compatible, now also speaking Postgres (experimental). The LLVM of databases.
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realtimeconfigquickscan
Discontinued Linux configuration checker for systems to be used for real-time audio
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pulseaudio-modules-bt
Discontinued [Deprecated, see https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt/issues/154] Adds Sony LDAC, aptX, aptX HD, AAC codecs (A2DP Audio) support to PulseAudio on Linux
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My journey to "I use arch btw"
Once I finish installing Hyprland, I moved on to installing missing packages for audio and software I normally use. For audio, I'm using pipewire.
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Mastering Unattended Remote Desktop on Wayland: A Modern DevOps Guide
Wayland flips this model entirely. Under the Wayland architecture, compositors enforce strict security boundaries. The actual task of capturing the screen or injecting input is handled by the xdg-desktop-portal architecture, which works in tandem with PipeWire. This approach is undoubtedly a massive security win for desktop users, but it creates a fundamental roadblock for the concept of "unattended" access. The compositor assumes that an interactive session involves a user who can verify requests via a dialog box.
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My fully offline AI-assisted Linux development machine
PipeWire for audio
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C Is Best
I'm not saying "automatic", I'm including "sanitizer retursn an error" as default - that's not what happens in C (or at least any C project I've worked on). You have to actively remember and choose to check the error code.
"Ubiquitous" is a different word than default, checking the return code of malloc isn't even that. As an example - I've been having some issues with pipewire recently (unrelated) and happen to know it uses an unwrapped malloc. And it doesn't reliably check the return code. For example: https://github.com/PipeWire/pipewire/blob/6ed964546586e809f7...
And again, this isn't cherry picked, this is just "the last popular open source C code base I've looked at". This is the common case in C. Either you wrap malloc to crash, or you just accept undefined behavior if malloc fails. It is the rare project that doesn't do one of those two.
- PipeWire: Greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux
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Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support
If you don't know what PipeWire is (I didn't), it's an audio-video handler - it replaces things like PulseAudio.
https://pipewire.org/
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Are we sure that weston/wayland is the way to go?
Damn, your "audio server" seems to disagree with you.
- [Linux Gaming] Quelle distribution fournit un pipewire hors boîte?
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PipeWire 0.3.66
PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia pipelines. This includes:
- PipeWire 0.3.65 released
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A note from our sponsor - Kargo
akuity.io | 13 Sep 2026
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The primary programming language of pipewire is C.
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