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+# The sdm845 ADSP front-end advertises S24_LE (24-bit samples in 32-bit
+# containers) and then garbles it — playback runs without a single error,
+# consumes data at the right rate, powers every DAPM widget, and produces
+# roughly -48 dB of near-silence. PipeWire prefers the widest format a device
+# offers, so out of the box every PipeWire client is inaudible while
+# aplay/speaker-test, which default to S16_LE, work fine.
+#
+# Pin the built-in card to S16_LE until the q6asm format handling is fixed.
+monitor.alsa.rules = [
+  {
+    matches = [
+      { node.name = "~alsa_output.platform-sound.*" }
+    ]
+    actions = {
+      update-props = {
+        audio.format = "S16LE"
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]