On 27 February 2016 at 10:15, Alexandre Ratchov <a...@caoua.org> wrote: > One option would to patch libsndio to try more devices (how many?).
I've also noticed this issue and have hacked libsndio to try snd/0 and snd/1 first, which is basically the same as your suggestion. > A nicer approach would be to handle this in sndiod [...] That would be fantastic, but seems like quite a lot of work. I don't know enough about the audio stack to really comment, but can't there be problems with a device changing for the program mid stream? Or would you add a special "trunk-like" pseudo device? What do you think of adding a separator to AUDIODEVICE, to be able to list more than one device (like : or ;)? Then libsndio just tries them one after another, and you don't have to guess how many. It's a simple backwards-compatible fix, but it doesn't address device migration. I guess fixing it in sndiod is the right way, though.
