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doodloo

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From: London

Registered: 2015-09-11

Posts: 59

Alternate Sound Card Default

Good evening XFCE community

So I have that external sound card in the form of a USB stick. I plug it, and it transmits sound from / to a headset (It's a Corsair Gaming HD4000 or something like this). On the headset, there is a button to turn the volume up and down, which is digital (It's not a variable resistor).

Everything works quite good, but there is one thing that I'd like to figure out. I use this on my laptop computer, so I plug the USB thingy quite often. Every time I plug the USB thingy, I have to go to the sound options and set that Corsair headset as default. This way apps use it and the microphone, and importantly, the volume control button actually controls the main volume slider in XFCE.

I was wondering if there was a way to define priority to my devices, this way when I plug the USB thingy, it would automatically become the default?

For the ones that are wondering about compatibility, the headset worked OOtB for me. Here is a lsusb if you're curious or want to purchase one (My pre-requisite was for Linux compatibility, and the dude at the store let me try them before making my mind up):

 doodloo@AirforceOne  ~  lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 1532:0043 Razer USA, Ltd 
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 8087:07dc Intel Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1c7a:0603 LighTuning Technology Inc. 
Bus 003 Device 008: ID 1b1c:1b1c Corsair 
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 5986:055c Acer, Inc 
Bus 003 Device 007: ID 1b1c:1b1b Corsair 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Thank you for your help!
Doodloo.