[Bug]: only mono output - no stereo

[smokcat]

Preflight Checklist

• I use the latest version of Pear Desktop (Application).
• I have searched the issue tracker for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.
• I understand that pear-devs/pear-desktop has NO affiliation with Google or YouTube

Pear Desktop (Application) Version

3.11.0-2

Checklists

• I use the portable version of the Pear Desktop Application.
• I can reproduce this issue in the official version of (WEB) YTM.

What operating system are you using?

Other Linux

Operating System Version

Arch linux

What CPU architecture are you using?

x64

Last Known Working Pear Desktop (Application) version

3.11.0-2

Reproduction steps

start any song

Expected Behavior

audio is output in stereo format

Actual Behavior

audio output is only mono

Enabled plugins

1. Bypass age restrictions
2. Navigation
3. Performance improvements [beta]

Additional Information

is is ONLY pear-desktop that exhibits this behavioir
all other applications output stereo audio fine, including youtube-music in the browser

[smokcat]

...wtf
this seems to be a google-related problem....
the same behaviour now started to appear in youtube music in the browser, and youtube too

but it seems to be only those... other webpages and applications can still play stereo audio

..but only sometimes, idk its weird
restarting the browser fixed the issues...
(this solution doesnt seem to work for pear-desktop tough..)
apparently restarting the application fixes it sometimes, but the chance of the error appearing is quite high