Could it be related to this? I have multiple ALSA output devices. In Pulse Volume control they are all named ALSA Playback in the Stream display. This is confusing and different names should be used. If I right click and select move stream I can see the right name like: ALSA PCM on hw:1 (USB audio) But even this is confusing with multiple USB audio devices. I have a single PC feeding a whole house audio system. It has six identical USB audio out devices on it which go to the input of the multi-room amp. The rooms have a keypad to select which input is playing. I feed six different streams into the USB devices. Plus I use the motherboard hardware for desktop use. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com