On 2017-01-04 18:41, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Sun, 2017-01-01 at 19:30 +0100, Linux User #330250 wrote: >> What did not work was to add option >> sink_properties='device.description="AirPort Express"' -- the module >> always failed to load that way. I am also not able to change its name >> later, using: >> >> pacmd update-sink-proplist raop.AirPort device.description="AirPort Express" >> >> only writes "Failed to parse proplist." I also tried module.description, >> which also failed. > The failure is probably because of quoting issues. I'm not sure what > was wrong when you tried to add the sink_properties argument when > loading the module, but the update-sink-proplist command will > definitely fail, because the quotes around "AirPort Express" will be > removed by the shell, so pulseaudio will see this: > > device.description=AirPort Express > > "Express" gets interpreted as a property name, and parsing fails > because it's not followed by '='. Impressive! Thanks, that was it! I've tried to move around ' and ", I even escaped the " (as \") and the whitespace, but to no avail. This works: pactl load-module module-raop-sink server=airport sink_name=raop.AirPort sink_properties="device.description=AirPort" (This also works with ' instead of ", but neither works with a whitespace.) Thanks! > >> My questions: >> >> 1. What should I try or what have I done wrong in the first place? >> >> 2. Is there a way to get steady sound output to the RAOP device and how >> do I configure this? > I don't have answers to these questions. > >> 3. Is there a way to set the sink statically (without >> module-raop-discover which gets the wrong IP addresses and creates two >> devices with it) and to automatically set this up with the start of >> pulseaudio? > You can add modules to /etc/pulse/default.pa. I've added the above line as load-module in /etc/pulse/default.pa. I will see if it worked with the next boot+login. The one thing that remains unclear to me so far is how it autoloads in the first place, because I cannot find any raop modules in the config files in /etc/pulse. I assume that module-raop-discover does the magic, but it does it wrong, so I would like to blacklist this module and manually load the modules-raop-sink instead. Only, I couldn't find a blacklist syntax for default.pa (or system.pa). I found "disallow-module-loading true" which prevents all module loading. I could try unload-module, but how will this prevent a later invoked automatic module loading? I hope that the manual line in /etc/pulse/default.pa will prevent the module-raop-discover magic from now on, otherwise I can only think of renaming module-raop-discover in the file system. Thanks so far, Linux User #330250 aka Andreas
