On Jan 12, 2008 6:35 AM, Erik Slagter <erik at slagter.name> wrote: > Ritesh Kumar wrote: > > > What was problem you wanted to solve... (network audio?). May be I can > help. > > I had posted here a few weeks ago. I have an amplifier with USB terminal > (and accompanying DAC) that removes the USB DAC (power down) when > powered down. This is a problem for me because I need to supply both the > amplifier and the internal soundcard with audio 24/7. When the amplifier > 's USB DAC goes away, the device is removed by alsa, which most programs > don't like. My thought was to use PulseAudio to solve this, but > PulseAudio does indeed notice that the USB DAC goes away, and actually > even re-enables it when it comes back, but never inserts it back into > the "combined" device. > > Now I've solved it using mpd (which can drive multiple outputs and > enable/disable these at well) and udev (to enable/disable the USB DAC in > mpd when powering up/down the amplifier). Works nicely. > This does seem to be something pulseaudio should do right... to bad that didn't work that well. I remember seeing a video of a demo of pulseaudio showing the connection and disconnection of an audio device and how a "send-to-all" virtual sink worked properly. However, the demo was with a GUI so I don't remember what commands could be given to pacmd to achieve the same effect. Good to know that you were able to solve the problem using mpd/udev. _r -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20080112/12f68891/attachment.htm>
