Re: [emms-help] Multiple sound cards / volume change

[Yoni Rabkin]

Bob Newell <address@hidden> writes:

> Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> We should, however, definitely add the choice-of-card option to the
>> customization options. Do you feel like writing that patch? No problem
>> if you don't, just say so and I'll do it.
>
> I would rather let you do it, not because I don't want to, but because
> my, um, "coding style" is not the best.
>
> You're right that in doing auto-detection I would only find the first
> active sound card. I am not sure how that could be handled, if indeed it
> should be handled. That said, I found auto-detection valuable because I
> would have had to guess until I got it right (though that wouldn't have
> taken long).
>
> However, since this issue hasn't been brought up before, over a span of at
> least 10 years, it likely doesn't affect a lot of users.
>
> Thank you for listening and for your attention to this issue.

I checked on my machine and I have cards with ids: 0, 1, and 29 (go
figure).

I've just pushed out to the git repo a patch which adds a customization
option so that the card id number can be chosen.


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