[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #330: Changing default sink/source doesn't affect streams already stored in volume-restore.table

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#330: Changing default sink/source doesn't affect streams already stored in
volume-restore.table
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 Reporter:  isaks        |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect       |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:         
Component:  pavucontrol  |    Severity:  normal 
 Keywords:               |  
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 Some background to the problem:

 I've been using a PCI sound card for ages, but today I went out and bought
 a USB sound card to be able to control which sound goes where by using
 software (i.e. Pulse Audio). I want this because I want Banshee to output
 to my stereo, skype to the headphones and everything else to the desktop
 speakers.

 ''(The USB soundcard was instantly detected by the running pulseaudio
 process when I plugged it in - great work there guys!!!)''

 I now configure pulse to use the USB card as default (through
 {{{pavucontrol}}}) and I therefore expect all future sound to go through
 the desktop speakers. This is not what happens though, since most of my
 sound generating applications are already in volume-restore.table, pulse
 will keep them on the PCI device sink.

 After I removed {{{~/.pulse}}} everything worked as expected. But it took
 some digging before I found that this was the cause of the problem...

 Proposed solutions (I've no idea which, if any, are doable though):
  1. Move all entries in the volume-restore.table to use the new default
 device.
  2. Same as 1) above, but prompt the user before.
  3. Move all entries which hasn't been specifically configured by the user
 to use a specific output device to the new default device. This obviously
 requires that the file contains this information.

 I'm using '''Ubuntu Hardy 8.04''', which comes with version
 '''0.9.10-1ubuntu1'''.

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Ticket URL: <http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/330>
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