pulse-to-pipewire.md

PipeWire can act as a drop-in replacement for PulseAudio, you shouldn't come across any issues.

For Debian 12 and newer, pipewire-audio-client-libraries is replaced by pipewire-alsa and pipewire-jack. It is recommended to install the metapackage pipewire-audio which depends on wireplumber (the recommended session manager), pipewire-pulse (to replace PulseAudio), pipewire-alsa (ALSA) and libspa-0.2-bluetooth (for Bluetooth support). Moreover, installing this metapackage will remove pulseaudio to prevent any conflicts between both sound servers.

Here's what I did to switch from PulseAudio to PipeWire:

$ sudo apt install pipewire-audio pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa
$ sudo touch /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/with-pulseaudio
$ sudo cp /usr/share/doc/pipewire/examples/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.* /etc/systemd/user/
$ systemctl --user daemon-reload
$ systemctl --user --now disable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket
$ systemctl --user --now enable pipewire pipewire-pulse
$ systemctl --user mask pulseaudio
$ sudo reboot

Note that my PC does not support bluetooth, so I left out those modules. Please install libspa-0.2-bluetooth for BL support with PipeWire.