Installed ear candy package from Ubuntu software store - I can now unplug
and replug the USB headset while audio is playing and the stream moves back
and forth between the USB headset and laptop speakers. Win!


KillerKiwi - is there any reason to run the earcandy applet if I don't have
plans at the moment for creating special rules?

-John


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:56 PM, andypiper <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks KillerKiwi - earcandy does seem to provide the behaviour I want
> (will take a look at it in more detail)
>
> As you say, this really "ought" to be fixed in PulseAudio and/or Ubuntu
> formally (which could involve earcandy being installed and started by
> default). On my Mac, I can just plug in the same headset, and the audio
> switches transparently. It's crazy that this is not default behaviour on
> USB headsets.
>
> --
> No easy way to switch default sound output to USB headphones
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380928
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Description:    Ubuntu 8.10
> Release:        8.10
>
> I have Logitec USB headphones:
> [    6.254669] input: Logitech Logitech USB Headset as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.3/input/input2
> [    6.268254] input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Device [Logitech Logitech USB
> Headset] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
>
> When I plug them into the laptop or boot with headphones plugged in, the
> default sound sink in pulseaudio is my built in speakers. There is no sane
> and easy way to switch the sound output to headphones.
>
> Currently, I am doing this:
> pacmd
> unload-module volume-restore
> set-default-sink 1
>
> and then restart the application I want to use the headphones.
>
> This works differently than if I had plugged analogue headphones.
>
> What should happen instead is something of this:
>
> 1) Sound switches to headphones by default
> 2) A pop-up asks me which sound-output I want.
>
>
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