This isn’t so much an Arch issue (For what it’s worth, this also happened on Nobara) but rather a Pipewire issue but I wonder if anyone’s had this issue as well as me…

Running Arch on linux-zen (to fulfill Waydroid’s binder requirement), on a Ryzen 7950X, motherboard has a Realtek ALC4080, connected via USB (yes it’s still an internal sound chip).

Basically, after any prolonged use, I would get a lot of stuttering. It got particularly bad when I was running MusicBrainz Picard while listening to something in VLC, but it will happen often, and constantly.

I’ve tried setting my default output to the headphones, no dice. Also tried some workarounds from the Arch Wiki, specifically disabling suspend. Still happens. Adding headroom errored out Wireplumber.

Anyone had this and if so, have they been able to fix it?

Edit: I’ll probably have to check if it’s a kernel thing. I’ve just done some intensive tasks (i.e. installing Gentoo in a virtual machine) and the cutoffs come back. I remember Arch having something on the Wiki about that.