[pulseaudio-discuss] Saving stream volumes per physical output

[Tanu Kaskinen]

ti, 2010-01-05 kello 09:44 +0000, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti:
> 'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 05/01/10 05:29 did gyre and gimble:
> > If I listen to music with headphones and find that the volume is not
> > perfect, I turn the music volume up or down. After this the volume is
> > perfect. Then I switch the sink port to laptop speakers. After a while I
> > plug the headphones back in. Regardless of what I did to the volume
> > while using the laptop speakers, I very likely want the music to have
> > the same volume that it had last time I used the headphones.
> > 
> > Therefore, module-stream-restore has to save the stream volumes
> > per-output. I propose that the database key is changed to have the
> > following format: "<rolename>@<devicename>@<portname>". The last
> > fragment is optional, since not every device has ports. The rolename is
> > what is currently used as the database key; do not interpret the
> > proposed key format so that I would propose that streams could be
> > classified by role only.
> 
> by "<rolename>" I presume you mean the current stream restore format
> which can include a role-based rule or an application-based rule...

Yes, that's what I mean. I tried to make that very clear, but
communication is hard :)

> The above format does not actually allow you to store volumes
> per-application which would kinda suck.

Why? If <rolename> is exactly the same as the database key format used
today, I fail to see how any functionality could be lost.

-- 
Tanu Kaskinen