For Debian 12 and newer, pipewire-audio-client-libraries is replaced by pipewire-alsa and pipewire-jack. It is recommended to install the metapackage pipewire-audio which depends on wireplumber (the recommended session manager), pipewire-pulse (to replace PulseAudio), pipewire-alsa (ALSA) and libspa-0.2-bluetooth (for Bluetooth support). Moreover, installing this metapackage will remove pulseaudio to prevent any conflicts between both sound server.
Pipewire often seems to appear mysteriously in Bookworm KDE (where PulseAudio is still the default) and a working hypothesis/wild guess is that an update or new user-installed package is bringing down Pipewire as a dependency. Or maybe users are just curious about Pipewire and decide to try it out.
Sound issues may have no obvious cause until the user runs the following command:
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