[pulseaudio-discuss] Changing default soundcard on attach/detach of soundcards

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Marco Ballesio at 08/07/10 09:37 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>
>> Now, incorporating what you suggest, I guess I have nothing against a
>> specific module that actually manipulates a given priority list for you.
>> e.g. you could have a module-prefer-usb-for-music module that actually
>> implements your desired behaviour in a purely modular fashion by
>> automatically rearranging your music priority list for you. Personally I
>> think most users would not want it, but for those who do they can load it.
>>
> 
> sorry for jumping in the thread so late, but having worked on
> something similar I think a suitable project already exists. It is the
> "resource policy", based on ohm, the git repo is at:
> 
> http://meego.gitorious.org/maemo-multimedia/ohm
> 
> Through this tool it's possible to seamlessly handle whatever we can
> consider a resource (CPU, memory, audio sink/source) depending on the
> system state, which may change after particular events occur (e.g.
> audio jack insertion or removal).
> 
> Many meta-informations like a proper wiki page are missing there
> though, but still it's worth a consideration imho, as the project can
> be considered as already quite stable (let's say it's at production
> level for some targets).

Thanks for the info.

I'm actually having a meeting next week to discuss some thing on this
general topic (loosely speaking) so I'll try and find out a bit more
about this before then.

Col

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