The all-in-one audio control center for Linux, built on PipeWire.
Mix, route, process and tune all of your audio in one app, without hand-editing a config file.

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• Search the whole app: the search button at the top of every page, or Ctrl+K, finds any page, setting, device, app or thing you've set up, and takes you straight to it.
• Bug fix: the line under the sidebar's header now meets the one under the page's header, on every theme (#32).

• Equalizer, redesigned: drag the curve and hear it live, then compare it with the saved one at matched loudness.
• Devices, redesigned: every device in one list; pick one to see what plays into it, where it goes, and its settings.
• Patchbay, reworked: connect whole devices or channel ranges in one go, and arrange the graph by signal flow.
• Balance and per-channel volume for every output, input and app.
• Preferences: start at login, start minimized in the background, light or dark.
• Narrow and tiled windows: the window now goes down to 360 pixels wide, and most pages fit it.
• Live updates: Devices and the Equalizer follow changes as they happen, instead of polling.
• RPM packages for Fedora 43 to 45 and openSUSE Tumbleweed, beside the .deb.
• 17 bug fixes. Every change, and every earlier release, is in the changelog.

A look inside

Equalizer Drag the curve and hear it as you go. Compare with the saved curve, or with no EQ, at the same loudness. AutoEQ import, presets, and echo and noise removal for your mic.	Devices Every device in one list. Pick one to see what's playing into it and where it goes, with its port, profile, settings and a test chime.	Patchbay The live graph of your session. Connect a whole device or a range of channels at once, arrange it by signal flow, and save it as a snapshot.
Signal Paths Draw where your audio goes: sources on the left, mixes on the right, effects on each. Start from 26 templates.	Mixer Every app and device, with live meters. Move a stream to another device while it plays, or set the balance of each channel.	Preferences Light or dark, four volume slider styles, and start at login, minimized to the background.
Virtual devices Null sinks, virtual mics, one output that plays on several cards, buses, and per-channel maps.	Surround A wizard for real 5.1 and 7.1 speakers, and HRIR virtual surround for headphones.	Narrow windows Tiled, or as narrow as 360 pixels: the list and the item you pick take turns.

Also: server clock and quantum, stream processing, per-app routing rules, LADSPA/LV2 effect racks, filter chains, device presets and a live performance monitor. All features · Every screenshot

paru -S pipewire-control-center   # or: yay -S pipewire-control-center

sudo apt install ./pipewire-control-center_0.6.3_all.deb

rm -f ~/.local/bin/pipewire-control-center ~/.local/bin/pwcc \
    ~/.local/share/applications/io.github.knightinfected.PipeWireControlCenter.desktop

sudo dnf install ./pipewire-control-center-0.6.3-1.fc44.noarch.rpm

sudo zypper install --allow-unsigned-rpm ./pipewire-control-center-0.6.3-1.tumbleweed.noarch.rpm

# Fedora
sudo dnf install pipewire pipewire-utils wireplumber pipewire-pulseaudio \
    pulseaudio-utils gtk4 libadwaita gobject-introspection python3-gobject \
    python3-numpy python3-soundfile
# Debian / Ubuntu (Ubuntu: add libspa-0.2-modules-extra for LV2 and SOFA)
sudo apt install pipewire wireplumber pipewire-pulse pulseaudio-utils \
    gir1.2-gtk-4.0 gir1.2-adw-1 python3-gi python3-gi-cairo python3-numpy \
    python3-soundfile
# Arch
sudo pacman -S --needed pipewire wireplumber pipewire-pulse gtk4 libadwaita \
    python-gobject python-cairo python-numpy python-soundfile

git clone https://github.com/knightinfected/PipeWireController.git
cd PipeWireController && ./pipewire-control-center

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin ~/.local/share/applications
ln -sf "$PWD/pipewire-control-center" ~/.local/bin/
ln -sf "$PWD/pipewire-control-center" ~/.local/bin/pwcc
sed "s|^Exec=.*|Exec=$HOME/.local/bin/pipewire-control-center|" \
    io.github.knightinfected.PipeWireControlCenter.desktop \
    > ~/.local/share/applications/io.github.knightinfected.PipeWireControlCenter.desktop

PipeWire 1.0+, WirePlumber 0.5+ and libadwaita 1.7+, which rules out Debian 12, Ubuntu 24.04 and Linux Mint 22 (built on Ubuntu 24.04). Python 3.10+, and no build step.

Will it mess up my config? No. It never edits the files your distro ships. Its changes go into files of its own, listed below. Tools → Reset all overrides removes every setting it wrote, and anything you built, like a chain or a virtual device, comes off its own page.

Do I need to restart anything? Some changes apply instantly. When one needs a restart, a banner names the service and restarts it for you. Filter chains, virtual devices and equalizers each run as their own process, so changing one never interrupts the rest of your audio.

Something's broken. Please open an issue. I use this daily, which means I mostly find the bugs I happen to walk into, and every PipeWire setup is different. Even a one-line report helps more than you'd think.

Uninstalling the package leaves your settings alone. To remove those too, these are the only places the app writes:

There's one exception. Import existing devices on the Virtual Devices page moves the drop-in it adopts into an inactive/ folder next to it, so PipeWire doesn't load it twice. Move the file back to undo that. Importing a filter chain copies it and leaves your file where it was.

The unrelated pipewire-controller app from PyPI also keeps a settings.json in ~/.config/pipewire-controller/. If you use both, delete only what's listed above.

Right now PipeWire Controller is a one-person project: I design it, build it, test it, package it and answer every issue myself. If it has earned a place on your desktop, sponsoring it or a one-off donation means more of my time goes into it. Bug reports, ideas and feedback count just as much. The app is GPL-3.0 and stays that way: nothing is ever locked behind a donation.

Want to help with code? Read CONTRIBUTING.md first.

_{Licensed GPL-3.0-or-later. The icons in pwctl/icons/ are from the GNOME icon-development-kit, under CC0 1.0. Thanks to Wim Taymans, creator of PipeWire, for reviewing the app.}