Choppy/Crackling bluetooth through pipewire.

[thegrind]

I am runnning Gentoo on a RPI5 with the internal BT device enabled. I am running headless and I am running Kodi 22 Alpha 2. I upgraded to pipewire and now I am getting quality issues with my headphones over BT. I saw on the wikipedia that the crackling can be solved by adding

default.clock.min-quantum = 2048

but this didn't work for me.

I added this to the /etc/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/gentoo-sound-server-enable-audio-bluetooth.conf file and it helped the most.

monitor.alsa.reserve-device = disabled
monitor.bluez.seat-monitoring = disabled

I also tried removing the device and repairing and connecting.

The first couple of minutes when starting a video I don't get much sounded but then it clears up a bit to where I can at least hear it. It then works decent with frequent crackling.

Anyone have any tips?

[thegrind]

I tried a different device and it works without issue. The Momentum TW2 isn't working. Not sure if it is the codec aptx.

[senapazio]

If you are using Blueman, try disabling it. Blueman has an option that sends a message to retrieve battery status and signal level.
Some device dosn't able to transmit high bit rate sound if meqnwhile received other message requests.

I did it withi this command

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systemctl --user disable blueman-applet.service