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Disable Audio Source/Sink Module in Pipewire

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In pulseaudio I use to be able to completely disable an audio device using something like:
pactl list short modules | grep -E "Logitech_BRIO|platform-skl"
pactl unload-module 15 # ID of device I wanted to disable
Which would prevent the device from appearing in any applications or most audio configuration settings (Like Cinnamon desktop Sound Settings). Now using Pipewire the individual devices no longer appear as modules, and even after reading thru the [Migrate PulseAudio wiki](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/Migrate-PulseAudio) I don't see how to entirely disable a device. Even using pavucontrol to set the configuration profile to off doesn't remove the device. Is there a way to completely disable an input or output device when using Pipewire?
Asked by Greg Bray (439 rep)
Nov 17, 2021, 06:41 PM
Last activity: Aug 12, 2025, 04:17 AM