Hi! Mark Greenwood wrote: > > 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 Is there any news on this? For me it's just cosmetics, but I'm sorry to report routing her audio from "PAPLAY:STDIN" to "USB_0777:x3425" just to have music in the kitchen is something my girlfriend won't accept as practical any time soon... I believe it should be possible using virtual ALSA devices (like the ones used to combine 3 stereo cards into multichannel). As I understand it it should be possible to create a virtual device with a catchy name in .asoundrc and then patch all channels through to the hardware device. But I've never really dealt with alsa configuration so I don't know how these virtual devices handle sample rate and bitrate etc, and considering that hardware autodetect works really great in Pulseaudio it seems like a lot of work and opportunity for desaster when all I want is customize a display name... Jost
