2011/8/9 Johannes H. Jensen <joh at pseudoberries.com>: > Greetings! > > On some systems, e.g. Android, when there are multiple applications > playing sound, the most recently started app gets precedence and the > other apps are muted/paused. For example, if the music player is > running and I open a video, the music player is paused automatically > to make room for the video's sound. > > I find this quite convenient and would love if my computer behaved > similarly. In addition it would be even nicer if the music was > automatically restored when the video is stopped again. That could indeed by some handy functionality. In pulseaudio there's already a concept of corking a stream. If a stream is corked, its audio is muted and the application receives a signal so it can pause the playback. If the stream is uncorked, the music resumes playing. > There's a project called "Ear Candy" which implements similar > functionality. It's a stand-alone python app which fades the volume of > applications in and out based on certain criteria. Unfortunately it > doesn't seem to be active anymore, and the author notes that the > functionality should ideally be added to PulseAudio. > > So my question is, would people be interested in such a feature in > PulseAudio, probably as a module? Do you see any apparent problems > with having this functionality? This would indeed be best implemented as a module. You can use module-cork-music-on-phone as an example. There were also some threads on the mailing list about corking streams that you might want to read, such as "dynamic routing through pulse audio" a couple of weeks back. Maarten > > Best regards, > > Johannes > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss >
