2011/10/12 Cyrus Vafadari <cyrusv at mit.edu>: > Is there a way to rename a sink? > i.e., I want the pacmd list-sinks to return "name: <Basement>" instead of > "name: > <alsa_output.usb-C-Media_Electronics_Inc._USB_PnP_Sound_Device-00-Device.analog-stereo>" > card: 2 > <alsa_card.usb-C-Media_Electronics_Inc._USB_PnP_Sound_Device-00-Device> > device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1d.0-usb-0:2:1.0" > sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb5/5-2/5-2:1.0/sound/card1" I don't think it is possible to change a sink name. module-udev-detect sets this. If you want to set the sink name, you should load module-alsa-sink manually. This is not advised though. A better solution would be to set the device.description property, see http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/CLI This string is shown in most UIs for the sink. Maarten
