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The developers explain it's their "attempt to bring a simple way to manage complex streaming audio setups, it allows creation of virtual audio sources, attaching physical audio sources, managing volumes (including matrix mixing), 'complex' mute arrangements, and finally routing to physical and virtual outputs".
Part of what makes Pipeweaver interesting is that you use a web page to manage it, allowing you to access the UI from any device that can load a web page. They explained their reasoning on using a web page for it on their Wiki.
Early days for it yet though, as they mention it's under heavy development but it's looking real promising. They list the current status at time of writing as:
Implemented:
- Virtual Channel Creation
- Physical Device Mapping
- Volumes, Muting, Routing
- Configuration Saving and Recall
- Tray Icon and .desktop Files
- Custom Channel Colours
- Command Line configuration tool
- Application Management (Move Applications to channels inside the UI)
Planned:
- A 'Tablet Mode' interface
- Multiple Profile Support
- Latency Tuning
- Useful Documentation
Possible Future Plans:
- LV2 support for Mic Effects (Gate, Compressor, Expander, Eq etc)
- flatpak support
See more about it on the GitHub page.
I'll have to keep a bookmark of this one, for if I ever return to streaming it could be very useful indeed.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Petethegoat 13 hours ago
Quoting: WORMI can’t help but think a similar tool targeting Windows would be super janky and cost $20.Dunno about now, but in the old days you'd also have to download it from some unknown website and it would likely have a virus in it.
Quoting: WORMI can’t help but think a similar tool targeting Windows would be super janky and cost $20.Elgato Wave Link which seems this app at least for the Desktop app seems heavily inspired by is Free on windows and doesn't required any of their mics any more
Quoting: WORMI can’t help but think a similar tool targeting Windows would be super janky and cost $20.VoiceMeeter is actually free, although they do ask for money if you want. And it provides a lot of features that makes it a breeze to manage a fair amount of real and virtual input/output with multiple routing, in addition to a pretty good networked audio solution on top of it and various built-in effects.
It's actually the piece of software I miss the most from windows, although I just coded a pair of scripts that tweak all my audio devices as needed, now, so all of this is kinda moot to me now. And it also auto-toggle when my wireless corsair headset connects, which was impossible to do on windows, as far as I know.
Still, it's nice to have more good UI for audio management moving forward. Pulsemeeter is another project, but seems to move very slowly, and not everyone is comfortable with just piping scripts in `pw-cli`.
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