[Fwd: amarok-xine suggestion]

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Monday 12 June 2006 16:27, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Monday 12 June 2006 6:57 am, Max Howell wrote:
> > I have a USB headset, and it is recognized by ALSA as hw:2 device. It
> > would be nice to have a "fallback" device, so that I could configure
> > hw:2 as primary, and, if it fails (unplugged) fall back to hw:0.
>
> This is something that I can vouch for as something that would be a good
> feature.  I have a usb dac/headphone amp that gets setup as hw:1 by alsa. 
> no problem if I set xine engine to use it, everything works fine.  But, if
> the device is not plugged in, i.e. the alsa device is not present, xine
> engine cannot load, but there is no way to configure xine from the amarok
> gui to use the default hw:0,0 device.  So we have an endless loop, you
> can't load xine engine to configure, but you can't configure because you
> can't load.  I always have to shut down amarok and hand edit the xine
> config if I want to use the onboard sound.

This particular issue was actually fixed in trunk. See here:

http://svntalk.pwsp.net/project/amaroK/revision/542368

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Mark