On Sun, 28.06.09 17:09, Timothy J Massey (tmassey at obscorp.com) wrote: > Hello! > > Still working on my multi-zone setup. The goal is to have multiple > instances of MPD playing, and being able to be routed to 0 or more zones > simultaneously. Each player is connected to a unique sink created with > module-combine, with each of these combined sinks including *all* of the > physical sinks. Something like this: > > #Physical sinks for actual hardware > load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:1,0 sink_name=zone1 > load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:2,0 sink_name=zone2 > load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:3,0 sink_name=zone3 > #Module-combine sinks for handling each MPD > load-module module-combine sink_name=mpdplayer1 slaves=zone1,zone2,zone3 > load-module module-combine sink_name=mpdplayer2 slaves=zone1,zone2,zone3 > load-module module-combine sink_name=mpdplayer3 slaves=zone1,zone2,zone3 > > For now, I have a single instance of MPD playing through sink mpdplayer1. > When I start up MPD and play something, I get audio out of all three > sinks. So far, so good. > > Now, though, I would like to mute the sound in all but one of the zones. I > can't simply do something like: > > set-sink-mute zone2 > set-sink-mute zone3 > > Because that would mute the outputs for those zones, and they might be > (and likely are) playing music from one of the other MPD sessions. What I > want to do is tell the module-combined sink (mpdplayer1) to only send > audio to one of the sinks and to mute the output to the other two sinks. > > Is this possible? I cant seem to find a way to interact with the > individual channels within a module-combine... So basically you want to add/remove underlying sinks from a particular module-combine instance dynamically? We do that with the fully automatic mode right now. However, there is no way to control this manually for a specific instance. Sorry. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
