Lee, >On 3/22/07, Steve White <stevan_white@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>* enter directly the ALSA HW address of the speakers in each application >> (for the few applications that support it) or > >File a bug against any application that does not let you select the sound >card. > >No one would accept a network utility that only supported eth0... > I'm afraid I don't agree with this point, and don't accept the analogy. Most network utilities don't let you pick which hardware interface is to be used for communication. That is different from saying they only function with a particular interface. The question is, who and what are responsible for the determination of which interface is to be used? Likewise, many sound utilities assume that some other entity is responsible for picking the sound hardware. Although some users might want to send one sound stream to one sound card and another to a different card, for my purposes, I just want the sound to go to the *right* device. At present, making ALSA do this is much more fiddly than I would like. >>* when the USB speakers are plugged in, all sound should immediatel to >>them. >> (That's how it works on Windows and the Mac!) > >Immediately, as in, if you're playing an MP3 when you plug in the USB >device the audio switches to it right away? Or that any apps started after >plugging the USB device use it by default? > I had to double-check. In Windows Vista, one must re-start iTunes after plugging in the USB speakers, before iTunes will send sound to them. So my suggestion would make ALSA behave at least as well as Vista (except that it has to be configured once by hand). >>My suggestion is, instead of this behavior, that ALSA use all the default >>entries in the .asoundrc file, reading them in reverse order until it >>finds working hardware. > >This is a good idea and I think it's been posted before... > OK then. I'll check if it has been make an official feature request. Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
