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I have not been able to get my audio to work as expected since I upgraded my ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10

  1. My Bluetooth earphones were not connecting. They would appear as available device and when I try to connect they connect and immediately disconnect and then I cannot switch on the device connection. I resolved this by following the instructions here
  2. Post this I had to do pulseaudio --start at every restart of the PC otherwise the Bluetooth connection could not be established again. I could establish the Bluetooth connections only post doing pulseaudio --start. I resolved this by going to Startup Applications Preferences. I could not find any pulseaudio application so I added one. Name - pulseaudio, command - pulseaudion --start enter image description here
  3. Now my Bluetooth earphones connect enter image description here But the sound still comes from the the system speakers. In fact the Bluetooth earphones are not even listed under available devices. enter image description here. Also, when I put my earbuds back in the case the video that I am playing does pause. So my system is aware of the connected Bluetooth earphones on that level. Just cannot get the audio through them
  4. pulseaudio command results in E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
  5. Followed the answer here. sudo -H pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover does not help
  6. Have also run rm ~/.config/pulse/* and restarted the system. Still no help

How can I use my Bluetooth earphones on my system. I am on a ThinkPad carbon x1 gen 7

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Firstly please be aware that Ubuntu 22.10 has replaced Pulseaudio with the newer Pipewire sound server.

You are suggesting to go back to Pulseaudio. This might work but I assume you will have other problems in the long run.

I did have the same problem, bluetooth audio did not work anymore. All the suggested checks did not show any problems, bluetooth was enabled, not blocked etc.

In the end I managed to still got bluetooth audio to work.

Install the libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - bluetooth plugins

sudo apt install libspa-0.2-bluetooth

after that I had to restart pipewire (or do a restart)

systemctl --user restart pipewire

sources:

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