On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 07:25:31AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, Sean Greenslade wrote: > > > By default, new sound devices don't take over existing streams. In > > pavucontrol under the playback tab, there should be a dropdown menu for > > each client listing which card it is currently sending audio to. Try > > starting a sound playback and switching its dropdown to the USB device. > > Sean, > > Thanks for the quick response. > > I started a .mp3 using Audacious and pavucontrol's Playback tab shows > Applications (see attached screenshot.) The menu I was referring to is attached to each of the clients. In your screenshot, it's the box that says "HD-Audio Generic Analog Stereo". Click that and change it to "Logitech H570e Stereo Analog Stereo". > > Under the "output devices" tab, there is a checkmark button next to the > > sound devices. This lets you specify which device is the default. It won't > > force existing streams over to it, however, and it won't prevent some > > clients from remembering their previous soundcard, so you may still need > > to manually move some clients over to the new soundcard. > > There are two devices shown, including the headphones. The checkmark box has > 2 states represented by light grey and lighter grey (see attached > screenshot). Both tooltips say the active checkmark is to 'Set for > fallback.' By trial-and-error I think the darker grey is the active state > (it is for the mute button.) Regardless, no sound is heard with any > combination of checkmark button states for the two output devices. Your system theme makes it a little hard to tell, but yes, the one that is in the darkened state is the selected one. As I mentioned, this won't directly affect existing streams, it simply sets the "fallback" device that is selected if a new client appears and doesn't explicitly specify which sound card it wants to send audio to. --Sean _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
