Sound crackin in multimediavm - debian12.- Qubes 4.2.2

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You can try this:

Audio qube

I’d like to share some things that have restored my sanity while solving the sound crackling / pw-top xruns / pipewire debug messages of “Client too slow!” errors… My specific issue was that audio was fine-in-the-beginning-but-quickly-ramps-up-crackling-until-pure-robot-voices… I found pw-top ERRs were skyrocketing, and found this to explain it: api.alsa.headroom was the next target, and indeed it’s handled by wireplumber… There’s a section, in /usr/share/wireplumber/main.lua.d/50-alsa-conf…