⚠️ Pre-release ⚠️

Incremental changes since v.2.5.0-beta1

Switching EQ presets, gains, or toggling EQ on/off no longer interrupts audio playback in apps such as Spotify, and no longer piles up dozens of unused PipeWire sinks over a session. Previously, every EQ change loaded a fresh LADSPA module and left the old one behind (idle, to avoid a PipeWire sink-removal event resetting playback streams). Changes are now pushed live to the existing LADSPA node instead, so the same sink and module are reused for the whole session — nothing to leak, nothing to reset.
Internal EQ and noise-cancellation virtual devices are now clearly labelled (e.g. Arctis Media EQ (internal)) instead of showing truncated or garbled names in system sound settings.

The noise-cancellation chain now runs as a single native PipeWire filter-chain graph in a dedicated process, exposing exactly one recording device (Arctis Manager NC Mic) instead of one source per LADSPA stage plus a null sink and its monitor. Settings changes are pushed live to the running graph (disabled stages are neutralized/bypassed via their controls), so the microphone device never disappears from running apps when tweaking NC parameters. The previous per-plugin PulseAudio module chain is kept as an automatic fallback when PipeWire native tools are unavailable.
Device detection now uses the USB iProduct string (e.g. Arctis Nova Pro Wireless) as the primary identifier, scoped to the SteelSeries vendor ID. Product IDs remain as a tiebreaker when multiple configurations share the same product name (e.g. Nova 7 Wireless discrete vs. percentage battery variants), and as the sole matching method for configurations that do not declare a product_string. This allows firmware updates that change the product ID to still be recognised automatically; unknown PIDs that match by name log a warning suggesting udev rules may need updating.