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Bluetooth Audio Issues when launching a game? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 months ago by Sunny to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi there, I just acquired myself the Sennheiser Momentum 4, mainly for using while communting + work. But figured i'd try them out for some gaming too. They work just fine when watching YT or any video, but when I launch a game the audio quality changes significantly. I have no idea how or why its doing it, nor how to fix it. I've tried all of these different audio profile options, but all of them make the audio either distorted, weak, or make it sound like the audio is trapped inside a room... Anyone know how to go about this? Audio works fine with my normal non-wireless headset.

My system is running Bazzite.

Appreciate any pointers to how to resolve this.

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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Likely what is happening is that the game is probing audio devices and triggering the mic on your headphones to get picked up. This switches them into the "headset" profile which has awful audio quality. I don't know why the UI isn't showing that, make sure you are checking while the game is running and the audio sounds bad.

If you want your headphone mic to work there is not much choice. There isn't a standard bluetooth profile with good audio and mic. If you never want to use your headphone mic you can probably configure some advanced settings in your audio manager (probably PulseAudio or PipeWire).

[–] Sunny 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for the info. I won't need the mic, so I'll have a look at what I can tweak to prevent this 👍

[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Iirc there's a setting for Wireplumber (in case you're using PipeWire) to disable that behaviour when a BT mic is being picked up

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Can you tell me what that setting is? I have the same issue as OP

edit: i think it's this

bluetooth.autoswitch-to-headset-profile = { description = "Whether to autoswitch to BT headset profile or not" type = "bool" default = true

Edit: for those looking at this thread changing that true to false works, although you do need to restart the computer

[–] Sunny 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

what was the filepath to this file?

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

i think its this:

/usr/share/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf

[–] Kekin@lemy.lol 5 points 3 months ago

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth_headset

Sections 3.3 or 3.4

I did 3.4 to disable the headset profiles cause generally it's ass