Bug 396296

Summary:	Setting default audio device does not work correctly
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma-pa	Reporter:	nuc <nucrap>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Rosca <nowrep>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	ethan, nate, nucrap, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.13.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399954
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description nuc 2018-07-08 00:31:32 UTC

So everytime I get a sound cue (e.g. when getting the "Discard or Apply changed settings" dialog under System Settings) I would get a notification that default audio device is being "switched":

"Switching to the audio playback device Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) HD Audio controller Analog Stereo which has higher preference or is specifically configured for this stream."

I get this notification again each time after reopening system settings and getting another sound cue.

Why is it switching constantly?? I just want my default device to be used all the time, no switching involved..

Also, while I don't know if it's related, my default playback device hasn't been used by Spotify automatically, but I needed to change it for Spotify manually *again*. So either I really get something wrong or setting the default audio device under KDE doesn't work correctly. Note that I manually changed my default playback device at the very beginning after installing KDE.

Sorry if this sounds confusing, but that's just how confusing it looks to me as an end user.

Comment 1 nuc 2019-01-13 15:36:15 UTC

Ok so here's some follow-up. While I am not getting those annoying notifications anymore, I have noticed that most newly installed applications don't use the default device I have globally configured.

Instead, I need to manually configure it per application each time I install a new sound application.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2020-07-03 14:11:39 UTC

Seems odd. A lot of this was re-worked recently; any chance you could re-test with Plasma 5.19?

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-07-03 14:11:54 UTC

*** Bug 399954 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2020-07-18 04:33:09 UTC

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Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2020-08-02 04:33:12 UTC

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
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