[pulseaudio-discuss] giving custom names to devices

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 30.06.09 04:15, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 20.06.09 01:07, Jost-Philip Matysik (matysik at tu-harburg.de) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > > 
> > > Something I wondered about was whether it would be possible to give
> > > devices user-defined names. This would help specifically when network
> > > sinks are in use, so that I could send audio to 'Kitchen' instead of
> > > 'powermac snapper (00:10) on mac'... trips off the tongue a little
> > > easier, is all :)
> > > 
> > > Mark
> > 
> > Is there any news on this? For me it's just cosmetics, but I'm
> > sorry to report routing her audio from "PAPLAY:STDIN" to
> > "USB_0777:x3425" just to have music in the kitchen is something my
> > girlfriend won't accept as practical any time soon...
> 
> We actually do our best to find a good high-level name for all
> devices. If this shows up weirdly like this please make sure that you
> USB device is properly known by usb.ids. If it isn't make sure to file
> a patch to that to make it well known. "lsusb" shows you the
> informatin from usb.ids.

And if you cannot updatre hwdata, then you can always write a little
udev rule to set the SOUND_DESCRIPTION udev property for the
device. PA will then use that as device description. (only 0.9.16)

Lennart

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