Werner LEMBERG wrote: > I was told that PulseAudio might be a solution (I've never tried it > yet). How can I do this? Just in case there is any doubt, pulse is *definitely* the right solution here. While using pactl + hal would work I think it would be more sensible to do this via a module. It would be fairly easy to write a "module-preferred-device" that would just sit in the background and wait for a preferred device to be plugged in... once it is plugged in, it would move all streams to it and set the default device to the one it found. Manually moved streams would still open on their own preferred device tho' (via module-volume-restore). This should be fairly trivial to write..... You could have a list of preferred devices (stored in order of preference and a simple gui via paprefs could expose this. I'd say this is probably the best solution. Doesn't exist yet but you're welcome to take a crack at it :D You can probably use the code from module-always-sink and module-rescue-streams as a basis. Essentially what you are doing here is the opposite of rescue streams :) (or partially, in theory module-rescue streams could be made a bit brighter to rescue the streams to an ordered list of preferred sinks). Col
