<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><div><font size="2">Hi,</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">I see here some guidance on how to change the source or sink for a running process (aka move a stream):</font></div><div><font size="2"><a href="https://askubuntu.com/a/72076/566303">https://askubuntu.com/a/72076/566303</a><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">But is there a way (command line) to change the source and/or sink for a process that either:</span><br></div><div><font size="2">1) Has been run in the past but is not currently running ?</font></div><div><font size="2">or</font></div><div><font size="2">2) Has never been run (from PulseAudio's perspective) ?</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I guess this assumes the module-stream-restore module is active and actually persisting and restoring the streams on a per application basis, which is something that I would like to keep intact. In other words I do not want to force apps to always revert to the default.</span><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">I see that there is a ...-stream-volumes.tdb in my user config, and I can dump its contents with tdbdump to see the configuration.</font></div><div><font size="2">But I would rather not experiment with editing this .tdb file directly.</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Bonus question: It seems that some streams are configured not by process name but by "media role" (source-output-by-media-role), so I would like to be able to change the source or sink for a media role even if there is no application currently running with that role.</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Thanks</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>