At my system (5.2.3-arch1-1-ARCH, libpulse 12.2.0) `~/.config/pulse/cookie` contains binary data. So [here](https://github.com/mscdex/paclient/blob/master/lib/configuration.js#L230) we can get buffer directly: ``` if (hexStr.length === 256) { return Buffer.from(hexStr) } ```