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How to find the default device for PulseAudio?
You can first view your current default audio device by typing: you can view all your devices. you can set the default device. Not the answer you’re looking for? Browse other questions tagged sound pulseaudio or ask your own question.
How does PulseAudio work out of the box?
PulseAudio is designed to work out of the box. It automatically detects and configures local devices and sound servers available in the local network. It also implements numerous policies for automatic audio management and routing. Flexibility PulseAudio provides a high flexibility for the user.
What kind of protocols does PulseAudio support?
PulseAudio supports a variety of network protocols to communicate with clients, remote servers, and third-party software. Device drivers PulseAudio supports several backends to interact with hardware devices and controls.
How to set the default ALSA device for PulseAudio?
However, the following modules have to be unloaded to avoid device conflicts (the initialization failed error you got): Take a careful look of your /etc/pulse/default.pa and remove lines contain those modules. Also, in this case devices cannot be automatically detected, so you want to load module-alsa-sink to specify a sink manually as well.
What’s the default volume for PulseAudio in Ubuntu?
With PulseAudio 8.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 and a single sound card, you can set the default master volume to 50% with the following file. By including the system default you don’t have to worry about changes in the distribution’s defaults.
How do I change volume on PulseAudio sink?
When I reboot, the volume on the PulseAudio sinks is set to 100%. I know how to change the volume using pactl set-sink-volume, but that is only set temporarily. I could write a script that is run at startup, but it will not be applied if I connect a sink later. (i.e. a Bluetooth speaker)
How to select a default sound card with ALSA?
I wish to select a default sound card, or disable all others, in order to have the correct one selected after suspend. This is a way set default sound output card dynamically using PulseAudio (not ALSA). It is possible even to set ports too.