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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW - Add a way to override priority of sinks - mostly for module-combine-sinks"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101201">101201</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Add a way to override priority of sinks - mostly for module-combine-sinks
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>PulseAudio
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>core
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>pulseaudio-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>myst@focks.pw
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          <th>QA Contact</th>
          <td>pulseaudio-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>lennart@poettering.net
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        <pre>This is a bit hard to describe. I'd really like to see a way to manually set
priorities on sinks. I recently got a portable DAC, and I wanted to use it when
plugged in and fall back on module-combine-sink otherwise - mostly because I
often use a program that cannot handle changing sinks. This however means I
needed my priorities to be correctly ordered. After fixing the identification
of my DAC on the udev side, and switching to running a git build to have recent
fixes like <a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_RESOLVED  bz_closed"
   title="RESOLVED FIXED - ouput sound is not switched automatically to bluetooth headset"
   href="show_bug.cgi?id=99222">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99222</a>, I ran into that
I wanted the module-combine-sink sink to be above my internal card but below my
DAC. I solved this for now with `load-module module-combine-sink
sink_properties='device.class="sound" device.form_factor="speaker"'
`, but that's faking out the priority setting to get the right order, not doing
it any sort of "right".

I'm imagining adding a proplist entry of some naming that lets you outright set
the priority, and there would be a check at the start of
pa_device_init_priority in sink.c that would outright set the priority if it
was a valid value. I'd like to know, though, how that sounds, what people
think, ideas about the name, if there's anything big I might be missing, before
I try to work on a patch.</pre>
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