[LAD] Re: Pipewire

Marc Lavallée <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:06:28 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.audio.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 2024-08-13 à 11 h 36, Robin Gareus a écrit :

> This is something where macOS' Coreaudio/MIDI shines. Unlike macOS 
> Linux/ALSA has no persistent unique IDs for soundcards or MIDI 
> devices. ALSA supports hotplug, and first come first server sequential 
> numeric IDs. The best you^Wpipewire can do is keep track of cards by 
> name.
>
> So this is not something pipewire can reliably address, until ALSA get 
> support to identify cards by vendor and serial-number, and provide a 
> UUID.

I use a variation of this udev rule to assign names for my sound devices:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mpaolino/91c3587045fa8d1a9353b74bf102c83b/raw/e2d4628075c42a343453435d0e984a7da37eda94/95-static-soundcard-name.rules

Marc
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