Previously on Debian 12 I followed a guide to install the AAC audio codec for my Air Pods yet after upgrading to Debian 13 I seem to have lost the codec as I can no longer select it in KDE sound settings leaving only A2DP/SBC and A2DP/SBC-XQ, now I’m a bit at a lost as I remember all I had to do was put a aac.so file into /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/spa-0.2/bluez5/

Bluez5 directory list:

Anyone here by chance know a solution to this?

  • Brickfrog
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    That’s weird, the apt search just comes back empty on your end? Like when you do apt search pipewire-audio-client-libraries it just comes back blank?

    Thing is that’s definitely in the Debian Trixie (13) repository e.g. it is listed here too https://packages.debian.org/trixie/pipewire-audio-client-libraries , so an apt search should not come back empty.

    That makes me think you may need to double-check that your Debian still has the correct repository installed. Not sure about your system specifically but mine has

    /etc/apt/sources.list

    in that text file you should at least see

    deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie main non-free-firmware
    

    That should allow you to apt search the trixie main repository. If you add it yourself manually just make sure to run

    apt update
    

    before trying another apt search or whatever.

    If your upgrade somehow lost its own repository for apt that would make me wonder if this wasn’t a smooth upgrade for whatever reason :/

    • @ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      That’s weird, the apt search just comes back empty on your end? Like when you do apt search pipewire-audio-client-libraries it just comes back blank?

      Haha, no, I just copied & pasted your previous comment with new-lines. Didn’t feel like typing it all out myself.

      The 4 errors correlate to the 4 commands.

      I was able to install the packages but I didn’t notice a difference after reboot. I’m going to take a look tomorrow if anything changed when I get free time.

      • Brickfrog
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        29 days ago

        Gotcha!

        Ah well it was worth a try, hopefully there’s someone around that is dealing with the same issue and can give you a better idea on what to try next.