pipewire-filter-chain.conf(5)

💖 NAME 💖

ok so this is pipewire-filter-chain.conf — yes bestie, the whole page is literally just called pipewire-filter-chain.conf, we're starting strong. it's a File Formats Manual situation, and it lives inside the pipewire-filter-chain.conf(5) manual, iykyk 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

it's the PipeWire example configuration for running audio filters. that's the whole vibe. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here's where it can live, in order, bestie:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pipewire/filter-chain.conf

/etc/pipewire/filter-chain.conf

/usr/share/pipewire/filter-chain.conf

/usr/share/pipewire/filter-chain.conf.d/

/etc/pipewire/filter-chain.conf.d/

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pipewire/filter-chain.conf.d/

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨ (yes there's another one, the manpage said it twice, we respect the manpage)

okay so when pipewire(1) gets run with this config file, like:

pipewire -c filter-chain.conf

it starts a PipeWire client application that publishes nodes — and those nodes apply all sorts of audio filters to their input. audio glow-up, no cap 💅

and the important part: this thing is a normal PipeWire client application in all respects. nothing weird, nothing special-cased, just a regular client doing its thing. 🫶

now, drop-in configuration files named filter-chain.conf.d/*.conf can be used to modify the filter configuration — go read pipewire.conf(5) for the deets. and if you want examples to copy, there are some sitting in /usr/share/pipewire/filter-chain/ 🍓

lowkey obsessed with drop-ins, they're the main character of config management fr fr

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

The PipeWire Developers — you can find them at <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>, and PipeWire is available from <https://pipewire.org> 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• pipewire(1)
• pipewire.conf(5)

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and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🎀✨ this was brought to you by PipeWire 1.6.11 — pipewire-filter-chain.conf(5), periodt. 💖🦋🌸