If you experienced recent instabilities in your music/audio application, there is some hope in the 0.3.30 release note: 0.3.30 Release · PipeWire / pipewire · GitLab
Excerpts:
This is a quick emergency release to fix some severe problems with the previous release.
- Recording from a monitor port should work again.
- JACK applications should now be more stable again.
- Freewheeling should not lock up anymore.
- Fix lockups in many pulseaudio apps.
- Many other stability fixes.