Comment 15 for bug 1334329

I can confirm that this is still a bug for me, two months later, but I've recently noticed that this also happens on my work computer, which has the same soundcard as my gaming PC at home (the Asus Xonar DS), but with a different motherboard (the Asus M5A88-M).

However, instead of SPDIF being at the top of the list, my webcam (which has a built in microphone) is in the same position. So while I do have the ability to capture audio by default, it is not of good quality (I normally select my headphones which use the rear microphone port on the sound card).

In this case I'm pretty sure there was no weird lockup with audio programmes running at the time, so perhaps this is just generally an issue in 14.04 that has been caused by an update at some point since release?