Re: Can I specify the pulseaudio "application name"?
Måns Rullgård <[email protected]>
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John W <[email protected]> writes: > Sometimes I play sounds from commandline with the 'play' command. This > shows up as a pulseaudio stream (aka 'sink source') named "SoX". I can > adjust the volume for that stream separate from others on my system, > no problem. > > But what I'd like to do is have some set of these (eg: notification > sounds) be a different volume from others (eg: all the rest). So, I > thought maybe there's some way to specify a pulseaudio application > name other than "SoX" (maybe "SoX-my-notifications", or somesuch). > Then, I can adjust the volume for that separately, and pulse will > remember it. > > But so far, I haven't found any way to do this. > > Anyone know if this is possible? There is currently no way to set the name. It is hard-coded here: https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/code/ci/master/tree/src/pulseaudio.c#l65 -- Måns Rullgård