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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

WebCord is an "alternative client" for Discord, although it's just running the Discord webpage in electron. Recently it updated its electron version so it supports sharing audio as well as video.

I tried it out today on mint (x11, pulseaudio) and it works flawlessly.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I still have major problems with presence detection and notifications (in Webcord. Love it on Deck tho.) Could be me. Vencord is a project I just stumbled on and it seems really solid in just about every area. Check out those plugins.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And Vencord has a desktop client "Vesktop" which works like Webcord, with audio in stream too. No presence detection but notifications have worked for me

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Ive been using armcord with the vencord base, it's super solid and not as resource intensive.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Had to remove Armcord due to wild CPU usage.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What did you switch to, what memory usage consumption caused pause and what settings were you using?

[-] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

I switched to not using Discord. I didn't have a memory issue, I had a CPU issue. It was using like 25% of my CPU and causing my fans to go crazy. Not sure what "settings" you're referring to.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Sorry, misread that part. I was referring to plugins, which can increase CPU usage, and backend, which you can choose between vencord and webcord.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I would caution anyone using a client mod like that, since it is technically against Discord's terms of service. To be fair I've never heard of them banning anyone for that, but it's worth noting. Webcord is generally a much safer option.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

You're technically right but discord really doesn't care as long as you're not doing anything harmful with the client mods. Big YouTubers like No Text To Speech publicly promote and use Vencord and never get banned, I think his server is even a discord partner.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah it's fine right now, but these companies are prone to changing their minds. I think it's a good option but also wouldn't put it past discord to suddenly decide to crack down one day.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah I’m curious too. Does this feature works on Wayland?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

On wayland (KDE Plasma) it's not as seamless. For me it creates two sinks, one of which is voice channel and other is the stream audio stream. It wires my mic to both automatically and i have to manually wire the app audio to stream audio sink. So it does work with extra steps. I use qpwgraph for wiring.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I can tonight but i always forget to check back into lemmy and jerboa sucks at notifying on post responses

EDIT: tried it on my kde plasma wayland setup on my tablet and tried streaming my firefox window, and no dice. I checked in qpwgraph and no new linkage was made in the audio channel and nobody could hear my desktop.

Does this rely on wireplumber or can i keep using pipewiremediasession? Wireplumber breaks too many things for me to use.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

For me it makes the sink for stream audio but wires my mic to it instead of the app or desktop audio, gotta rewire manually. After that it works

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Try Vesktop, it's had seamless audio screenshare on pipewire for a while

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Discord is one of those things that should be avoided at all costs.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Yeah, but all of my friends use it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

What's your reasoning for this?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

It promoted proprietary software and requires you to use your IP address. Additionally, they seem to be heavily influenced if not controlled by government agencies

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Why though? Real question.

Edit: This is explained the README

[-] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

So you can share audio while sharing your screen just like on Windows. Before the only way was to route it through your mic which is annoying and has a ton of drawbacks.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Oh shit nice

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Nicee. Although, I've been having trouble running webcord. I get some decryptkey message error. It might have to do with my keys in my kde wallet. I have absolutely no idea how to fix it.

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