May I suggest a different feature update to the audio / soundcard / input -
output device selection logic ?
What about the ability to lock the selection for the input / output
soundcard ?
This to prevent WSJTX losing the sound device :
- whenever Windows re-assigns / re-enumerates the devices after a USB PNP
device update
- or worse, whenever you connect to a remote desktop where WSJTX is running.
Once the audio devices are locked in the settings panel, and would be lost,
WSJTX could go into a retry cycle to recover the devices ...
Any thoughts ?
73's Erik
ON4PB
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:34:31 +0200
From: "Uwe, DG2YCB" <dg2...@gmx.de>
To: WSJT software development <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Subject: Feature request: Output audio
device selection for alert sounds
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Bonjour Olivier,
Thanks for your suggestion. I would just like to briefly explain why we have
not done this so far.
Firstly: A second sound card selection menu would not solve the fact that
alerts can only be played if you have at least 2 sound cards on your PC.
Secondly, something like this would only make things more complicated.
Because then it would have to be programmed in such a way that the settings
in both are mutually exclusive. Imagine Windows resetting all sound card
numbering after a Windows update (or after you have plugged in a new USB
audio device). This would then cause quite a mess, because you have to
correct two sets of settings which are dependent of each other.
Thirdly: Honestly, many OMs don't really understand these technical details
one way or another. That's why the alerts are switched off by default. This
means that those OMs who have never heard of an Audio Alerts feature and
have never reached the Alerts tab in Settings will find the Soundcard menu
in Settings/Audio exactly as it has always been.
However, we have now explained the correct audio settings in more detail in
the User Guide for the upcoming ?250501? update. It will be released on
Thursday.
Allow me one general comment: My recommendation is that Windows users who
also use JTAlert should use the audio alerts from JTAlert, because JTAlert
does this best. The Alerts feature in WSJT-X Improved was primarily
developed for Linux and macOS, because JTAlert is only available for
Windows, and for those OMs who do not use JTAlert.
73 de DG2YCB,
Uwe
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