No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon

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firefox audio works, pavucontrol-qt works, but

  $  pacmd list-sinks
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
  $  pgrep -fa pul
2561 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
  $

oogling a bit i find: openSUSE:Pipewire - openSUSE Wiki
which still leaves me wondering…
How do i ‘list-sinks’, and will it work to use the results with ‘paplay’?
Screenshot_20221222_175327 about this systme

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Yes, pacmd requires the pulseaudio daemon, but you can still use the pactl command (assuming pipewire-pulse is active)…

pactl list sinks
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yes

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Yes, paplay will use pipewire-pulse (PulseAudio-compatible daemon that integrates with the PipeWire media server.)