[pulseaudio-discuss] Moving streams without pavuontrol

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:36:50AM +0100, Vegard Vesterheim wrote:
> The ability to use programs like pavucontrol to move streams between
> sound cards dynamically is very nice. But if the sound is very short
> it can be a bit cumbersome to do this directly via the gui. I wanted
> to move an alert sound from my IM-client from the headphones to the
> external speakers, but the sound entry appears and disappears too
> quickly for me to catch it in the gui. To work around this, I simply
> temporarily changed the sound to a longer one, giving me enough time
> to click in the gui ;-) 
> 
> Surely there must be a better way to do this?

  This particular use case was discussed many times on mailing list.
In short, sound emitted by IM client should be tagged as event sound.
Ideally by IM client itslef, but if you are using paplay to play,
you can attach --property=media.role=event to it. Please see
thise thread http://www.mail-archive.com/pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de/msg05684.html

   With your sound tagged properly, you won't have a problem
with moving them - event sounds slider is displayed in pavucontrol
all the time.

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