I own a pair of usb powered speakers, and I am having trouble finding how to set the usb speakers as the default output. I found the setting where you can switch the outputs but no where to asssign a default. I took screenshot here:
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You can first view your current default audio device by typing:
pactl stat
And with
pactl list
you can view all your devices.
And with this command
echo "set-default-sink alsa_output.Headset" | pacmd
you can set the default device.
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1seems no matter what I do, the output is always: "Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information." Is there a confirmation of any sort?– ZlattyFeb 1, 2014 at 22:03
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2@Zlatty, I got that same message, but followed it up with
pulseaudio --kill
andpulseaudio --start
which seems to persist the change. Feb 12, 2014 at 5:00 -
Ah excellent. It had seemed to work after a restart so a hooray for the both of us.– ZlattyFeb 12, 2014 at 5:08
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