[pulseaudio-discuss] default sink

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 17.12.07 18:07, Ritesh Kumar (ritesh at cs.unc.edu) wrote:

> > I'd say the intuitiveness depends on whether one's intuition
> > says that the client connects to a sink (routing decision
> > done at client connection time) or to the pulseaudio daemon
> > (routing decision done at stream creation time). The
> > asynchronous client API supports the view that client
> > connects to the daemon, because the desired sink is supplied
> > only when creating a new stream.
> >
> 
> I guess you are right... probably I will write a module on the lines of
> volume-restore to achieve the effect I need. I seems intuitive to me because
> the media player that I use (quodlibet through alsa-pulse), creates a new
> stream for every song (I don't know the details but I am guessing that every
> media player may need to do this because different songs can have different
> sample rates/formats). This causes subsequent songs from the same media
> player to move to a different sink if the default sink is changed... which
> in my view is non-intuitive :).

If you have loaded module-volume-restore than this should not
happen, because m-v-r remembers the device/volume for the application
using the application name as a key. And as soon as the new stream is
created and the application name is recognized the default
device/volume for its streams is restored.

Lennart

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