[pulseaudio-discuss] Making USB DAC the default sink

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Dalleau, Frederic at 15/12/11 09:57 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi Jeffrey,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Jeffrey Barish
> <jeff_barish at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Actually, the udev rule that I described will not run, so it seems that I
>> don't have a possible solution.  Any suggestions welcome.
>>
> 
> Maybe module-switch-on-connect can help you
> http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules#module-switch-on-connect
> 
> In combination with module-default-device-restore, you should always
> have the default sink point to the latest connected device.

Yup, this is the short term solution.

In the future (next 6 months hopefully) then the priority list routing
system should make this a bit easier to configure.


Col


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