On Wednesday 25 February 2009 20:37:04 H.S. wrote: > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Wed, 25.02.09 12:14, H.S. (hs.samix at gmail.com) wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is it possible to give custom names to audio devices? > >> > >> Presently the audio devices have long cryptic names listed in the device > >> chooser. If possible I would like give these devices custom user > >> friendly names. For example, my Micorosft LX-3000 USB headset is listed as: > >> ALSA PCM on front:1(USB Audio) via DMA > > > > Only very old versions of PA created descriptions like these. The > > This is on Debian Testing using pulseaudio 0.9.10-3. > > > > current logic uses the card name information from ALSA and tries to > > avoid any more technical information in that name. > > > > THe names still suck though because that creates names like "USB-Audio > > - USB Device 0x471:0x311". > > > > It would be much better if we could use the lspci or lsusb text. That > > information is available via HAL, but I don't see how to get that data > > correctly. i.e. we could go up in the hal tree until we find a > > useful description. But I am a bit afraid that this might cause us to > > take the description from the PCI bridge if the pci devcies connected > > to it lack one. > > Something I wondered about was whether it would be possible to give devices user-defined names. This would help specifically when network sinks are in use, so that I could send audio to 'Kitchen' instead of 'powermac snapper (00:10) on mac'... trips off the tongue a little easier, is all :) Mark
