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Rename Audio Devices on Ubuntu with this ‘Simple’ App

How to easily rename audio devices on Ubuntu with the Simple Wireplumber GUI app. Replace technical audio device names with descriptive labels.

29 June 2025

Audacious 4.5 Beta Brings New Plugins, Better PipeWire Support

The first beta of Audacious 4.5 is available for testing. It brings improved PipeWire support, better Qt/GTK parity, and a number of new plugins and skins.

2 June 2025
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Tauon Music Player Adds Native Support for PipeWire

Tauon music player (once known as Tauon Music Box) now offers native PipeWire audio playback on Linux —  albeit experimental for the moment. Fans of this streamlined music player have asked for native PipeWire support […]

1 September 2024

Linux Mint 22 Adopts Pipewire, New Linux Kernel Cadence

A slew of modernisation are set to ship in next version of Linux Mint, which will be based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. First up, Linux Mint 22 will switch to using Pipewire as its default […]

1 April 2024
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Ubuntu 22.10 Makes PipeWire Default for Audio

PipeWire is now shipping as the default audio server in Ubuntu 22.10 daily builds. PipeWire improves audio handling & performance compared to PulseAudio.

22 May 2022
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PipeWire aims to do for video what PulseAudio did for sound

PipeWire is a new multimedia processing framework for Linux that aims to improve the handling of audio and video on Linux.

21 September 2017