[pulseaudio-discuss] Upgrading a pa script from Ubuntu 12.04 to 16.10

[Joe]

On 11/15/2016 05:17 AM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 04:03 -0500, Joe wrote:
>> The only remaining weirdness (pending further testing and use) is that
>> vlc seems to remember what audio output it was last using - even if it
>> isn't running when I switch the outputs. When that happens, I have to go
>> into the audio menu of vlc and manually select the current desired
>> output. No big deal, just unexpected.
> Is vlc the only one application showing this behaviour? I would expect
> all applications to do the same. module-stream-restore remembers your
> choice when you move streams. You probably don't want that feature, and
> you can disable it by replacing
>
>      load-module module-stream-restore
>
> with
>
>      load-module module-stream-restore restore_device=false
>
> in /etc/pulse/default.pa
>
Tried that. Lost *all* audio upon reboot. System Settings reported no 
audio devices at all. Put it back in and things were as before after I 
booted again. Didn't try just logging out.

Joe