'Twas brillig, and Jost-Philip Matysik at 20/06/09 00:07 did gyre and
gimble:
Hi!
Mark Greenwood wrote:
Something I wondered about was whether it would be possible to give
devices user-defined names. This would help specifically when network
sinks are in use, so that I could send audio to 'Kitchen' instead of
'powermac snapper (00:10) on mac'... trips off the tongue a little
easier, is all :)
Mark
Is there any news on this? For me it's just cosmetics, but I'm
sorry to report routing her audio from "PAPLAY:STDIN" to
"USB_0777:x3425" just to have music in the kitchen is something my
girlfriend won't accept as practical any time soon...
While still "manual" you can "fix" things up with pacmd - see below.
I believe it should be possible using virtual ALSA devices (like the
ones used to combine 3 stereo cards into multichannel). As I understand
it it should be possible to create a virtual device with a catchy name
in .asoundrc and then patch all channels through to the hardware
device. But I've never really dealt with alsa configuration so I don't
know how these virtual devices handle sample rate and bitrate etc, and
considering that hardware autodetect works really great in Pulseaudio
it seems like a lot of work and opportunity for desaster when all I
want is customize a display name...
While this should be do-able it wont really work easily as the devices
will not be auto-detected.
It's possible to update the proplist automatically for the sink to
change the names:
If you know the name or index of your sink, just issue:
update-sink-proplist 0 device.description="My Preferred Name"
of
update-sink-proplist
alsa_output.usb_device_499_3003_Ser_00_em_if0_sound_card_0
device.description="My Preferred Name"
Both should work and the second approach should be more consistent.
If you run this at login, it will still around for the duration of
pulseaudio being alive.
Not sure if there is a more comprehensive way of doing this but I've got
some things I want to work on that are kinda related to this so I'll see
what can be done....
Col
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