gnome-sound-properties
I have known for some time that there was a work being done on improving the sound handling in GNOME, but I somehow missed out on it until today. Decided to test a USB headset and figured I would need to edit a GStreamer pipeline to get Banshee to output to this USB device. Then someone pointed out that there is GNOME sound properties now which I then used and noticed a ‘USB audio’ option having popped up. And it just worked.
So to the authors of gnome sound properties a big thank you from a happy user!
September 10th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
You should also give pulseaudio (www.pulseaudio.org) a try. Using the pulse audio server you can even switch the output of a running application from one soundcard to another one (well, and you can do a lot more…).
September 10th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
yes. pulseaudio will come with fedora 8 as default sound solution. its more than promising. great features!
September 10th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Work done? Blah. Until I get that nice popup “ooh, a new audio device. Would you like to prefer this for all your audio needs from now on when you happen to plug it in?” it is just pathetic.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:32 am
@ Erik: No, it’s cool when you don’t get a popup, but the sound of skype is automatically routed to your headphone/mic set, and the music stays on the speakers…
September 19th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
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