Bug 396799

Summary:	Please add "send to device xxx" to menu of each playback stream
Product:	[Plasma] plasma-pa	Reporter:	John van Spaandonk <jwork123nl>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Rosca <nowrep>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392117 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392103
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Description John van Spaandonk 2018-07-23 18:00:50 UTC

Scenario:
I plug in the headphone in my pc (not laptop - no autosensing headphone jacket)
I need to manually reroute the playing audio application (eg youtube) from the usb speakers to the headphone.

I want to use the plasma "audio volume" widget to change the playback stream in the "Applications" tab to a certain device (one of these visible in the "Devices" tab)
I try to click the menu on the right of the playback stream but this does not offer an opportunity to route the stream to a certain device.
I am now stuck - have to resort to pavucontrol, which of course offers this functionality. (as does Linux Mint which I used until a few weeks ago)

Distro: kubuntu 18.04

I searched on +audio +stream +device before entering this bug report and could not find a suitable one yet. Still I think one must already exist ... Please feel free to mark this one a duplicate in that case.

ps I found out via a web search that you can long-click the icon to the left of the Application, which then opens up the devices tab, after which you can drop on a certain device. I think this is not what we want: not discoverable, not in line with other solutions out there.

Thanks!

John van Spaandonk

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-07-25 21:10:28 UTC

One issue per bug report, please. See https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting#One_issue_per_bug_report

First issue: you need to turn on "Automatically switch all running streams when a new output becomes available", which is located in System Settings > Multimedia > Audio Volume > Advanced. However keep in mind that this will disable some functionality in the Audio and Video KCM. See Bug 392117 and Bug 392103.

Second issue: Click on the three-bar hamburger menu button on the left side and the option is there. If you don't see it, your Plasma version may be too old.