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Title: Recent update ruined my USB mic audio quality - help!
Liam Dawe 14 Dec 2022
Hi all, Liam here.

After a recent system update in Fedora KDE, my USB microphone audio quality took a big nose-dive. It sounds more robotic, like it's at a really low bitrate.

Does anyone have suggestions as to what I can do to find the issue?

I double-checked on Windows 10 where it sounds fine, so it's not a hardware issue, it happened after an update to the system.
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whizse 14 Dec 2022
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Maybe this?
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/2885
Liam Dawe 14 Dec 2022
OMG that was it exactly. So frustrating. Thank you! Downgraded.
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