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The changes to linux audio lately are a bit of a mess. Wireplumber completely changed their config format with 5.0 and it just stopped launching if you had v4 configs.
I do appreciate that we're not stuck with pulseaudio anymore though so I really shouldn't complain.
Mint is still on pulse, but thankfully there was someone out there that had a nice script that switches you to pipewire and easy effects so I did that.
~~(I tried to find that script again but can't find it. Pretty sure it was on a forum somewhere if anyone needs to find it.)~~
Found it: https://github.com/Rigel2118/pipewire-installation-kit-for-linuxmint
Thanks to pipewire's pulseaudio emulation transitioning from one to the other is effectively seamless. Just install the pipewire pulseaudio package (it's tiny) after installing the rest of pipewire and apps that depend on pulse just work.
I added the script to my post. It's not really that much and could have been done from a guide, but it sure as hell made it nice and simple.