[pulseaudio-discuss] pacmd get-default-sink?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and David Henningsson at 06/01/10 11:33 did gyre and gimble:
> is there a way, e g via pacmd, to get the current default/fallback
> playback (and record) device? There is no get-default-sink command.
> List-sinks shows a "priority" item, is this something I can reliably
> use, i e take the highest value to get the current fallback device?

pactl stat | grep Default

But please remember that the pacmd thing is not really a proper
pulseaudio client, and you should really use pactl for command line
integration whenever possible (pacmd does expose more stuff for
development/debugging etc.)

Col

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