[Techtalk] pulseaudio defaults help

[Carla Schroder]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 07:23:22 +0530
"A. Mani" <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com>
> wrote:
> > o great techtalkers,
> >
> > I want to assign audio device defaults like Skype > built-in analog
> > stereo, and music (like Banshee) to USB Audio Device. After much
> > effort and research I am sadly thinking this is not possible. PA
> > doesn't even remember my default Source and Playback streams, but
> > changes them randomly when it's bored. I'm using the graphical
> > tools like pavucontrol and padevchooser.
> >
> > Any hints? Helps? Weapons of destruction?
> 
> 
> use ALSA and Pulseaudio simultaneously:
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio

Every Linux user already does. ALSA provides the base audio drivers,
and PulseAudio manages routing. Is there a specific pertinent section
on that big page of stuff?


> 
> 
> It might make sense to use static packages of proprietary stuff like
> skype (if you cannot avoid it)
> 

How will that help with audio routing?


Carla

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