Media not playing, as well as sound options not appearing in settings

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I use Fedora 41, with KDE Plasma 6. This all happened a couple of days ago. So, I wanted to add noise cancellation for my microphone in OBS. I installed an application called NoiseTorch, and after i rebooted, it said “Connection to the sound service lost.” I installed PulseAudio, but then after that, when i clicked on a youtube video, it would only play 1 frame, then keep on loading with a loading circle. It still loads the frames, but doesn’t play. When i type “pipewire” in the terminal, it shows the following text:

[E][00062.679433] mod.protocol-native | [module-protocol-: 784 lock_socket()] server 0x55666612e800: unable to lock lockfile '/run/user/1000/pipewire-0.lock': Resource temporarily unavailable (maybe another daemon is running) [E][00062.679600] pw.conf | [ conf.c: 603 load_module()] 0x55666610d110: could not load mandatory module "libpipewire-module-protocol-native": Resource temporarily unavailable [E][00062.680200] default | [ pipewire.c: 124 main()] failed to create context: Resource temporarily unavailable

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: Sound settings are also not appearing, but in GNOME it works.

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Pipewire and pulseaudio conflict if both are installed.
Fedora replaced pulseaudio with pipewire some time back as the default audio processor.
If using pulseaudio there seems a need to swap the services since they do not play well together.

I believe that the package pipewire-pulseaudio manages the functions that used to be specific to pulseaudio so the alternate package is not required. Is pipewire-pulseaudio installed for you?

AFAIK the command pipewire is not intended for users and it also give me the same error message. The pipewire service runs as a user service on demand when audio is being processed.

It sounds like NoiseTorch may not be compatible with pipewire.

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I uninstalled NoiseTorch and the error is still occuring. I actually don’t have pipewire-pulseaudio, so I’ll try installing that and seeing if it works. EDIT: It worked, media is playing again :smiley: However, the sound options in the settings aren’t appearing. I’ll mark this as the solution, but an answer to this question would be greatly appreciated!! :slight_smile: EDIT 2: It seems that i needed to install something called plasma-pa, so i guess my problem is all fixed. One more thing. thanks so much. I’ve been going so crazy trying to fix this. God bless you bro

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