@silver-sun To clarify, I preferred a configuration where I would have exclusive mode, but for whatever reason, some other background audio process or application was taking precedent over the player. I was able to fix it just now by adding this to the pipewire.conf file:
context.modules = [
{ name = libpipewire-module-rt
args = {
# Set the desired audio device here
node.name = "strawberry"
node.exclusive = true
}
}
]
Now when Strawberry player is open, nothing else will try to hog audio which was interfering with the exclusive mode configuration I set. There is a slight hangup in that it considers my audio device busy when I skip a track but will now always work again after I re-select the new song rather than staying busy, and natural song changes from the queue work as normal.
