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dsdante

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Registered: 2014-12-04

Posts: 13

PulseAudio doesn't apply default sink until its restart

I've created a file ~/.config/pulse/default.pa:

.include /etc/pulse/default.pa
set-default-sink alsa_output.usb-Jineung_Elecom_UHF-nano_S-01-UHFnanoS.analog-stereo

When I login it seems that PulseAudio is switched to the specified sink:

$ pacmd list-sinks | grep -e name: -e index
    index: 0
        name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo>
    index: 1
        name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo>
  * index: 2
        name: <alsa_output.usb-Jineung_Elecom_UHF-nano_S-01-UHFnanoS.analog-stereo>

But in fact PulseAudio plays sound in a wrong sound card until I restart it with pulseaudio -k.
Setting load-module module-stream-restore restore_device=false as described here did not help.
Setting set-card-profile as described here did not help either (got the ridiculous error "No such profile: output:analog-stereo").
Actually, I solved this problem by explicit load-module for the only device and disabling autodetecting other devices, but I don't like this dirty hack at all. I want to know why PulseAudio doesn't obey set-default-sink. Any ideas, anyone?