[pulseaudio-discuss] giving custom names to devices

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Jost-Philip Matysik at 23/06/09 11:11 did gyre and 
gimble:
> Col wrote:
> 
>> While still "manual" you can "fix" things up with pacmd - see below.
> 
> Look! it's a conlose application, and it accepts parameters for the
> PA daemon at runtime! This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

No problem :)

> Is there any chance of maybe adressing the sinks by bus path? I have
> two identical cards and it's pretty hard to keep them apart otherwise...

Not that I know off no :( It's quite tricky to keep this kind of thing 
in there are sinks should really be mostly abstracted from this. In 
theory this could be added as a property to the sink but you'd have to 
parse the output of "list-sinks" to get the property and work out the 
index that applies to this then use the index... not really trivial :s

Longer term I'll try for a more UI friendly way, so perhaps just bust in 
a hacky method for now and hope the device numbering doesn't change :D

Col

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