[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #241: Pulse Audio Doesn't Remember Preferred Output Device

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#241: Pulse Audio Doesn't Remember Preferred Output Device
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  Reporter:  alexlang  |       Owner:  lennart 
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  reopened
  Priority:  high      |   Milestone:          
 Component:  daemon    |    Severity:  normal  
Resolution:            |    Keywords:          
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Comment (by coling):

 Replying to [comment:6 jgxenite]:
 > Replying to [comment:4 coling]:
 > Apologies coling, I did not receive notification of your reply,
 otherwise I would have posted back here earlier. Surely Trac is meant to
 be a bug tracker, so I should be using this to track what I believe is a
 potential bug?

 That's OK. There was a bit of a misconfiguration in Trac where reporters
 were not notified. Fixed now (hence why you got informed this time round
 ;))

 I'll leave Lennart to reply to the other bits, but I would say that
 setting the default device will not move all streams across to it - you
 have to do that manually. If pa has remembered that X stream wants your
 first device, then this is the way it will be.

 You can try and clean things out by logging out rm -rf ~/.pulse and
 logging in and setting the default device and see where you new streams go
 to.

 If you unplug your USB mid playing module-rescue-streams will kick in and
 even if you plug the USB back in, it will not switch back to it
 automatically. I guess there is argument for some sort of memory of how a
 stream was moved (e.g. manually or rescued) and as such, automatic moving
 (or unrescueing!) of streams would be possible.

 I'm not 100% sure if the capability to remember which sink a stream
 prefers knows that it's on the "default" of it is always uses sink name so
 this whole reply could be misleading for which I apologise. Lennart will
 no doubt rubbish it in due course if appropriate :p

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