Pulseaudio sinks nightmare to navigate
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome create audio sinks which do not have a unique label or icon. There is no way for the user to distinguish between a video on a blog or website, a video on youtube , a video chat they are participating in or an advertisement.
Desired behavior would be to show the label of the tab as the sink label and favicon of the tab as icon for sink.
This is important. People spend more time watching videos online and communicating through the browser than they do using dedicated applications on their machines. Fiddling with multiple sinks until you come across the right one is horrible from a usability perspective.
Expecting Firefox upstream or Chrome upstream to resolve the issue by themselves has not worked. Its 2015.
At the end of the day this bug doesn't effect their adoption but it does affect pulseaudio and the platforms which use it.
| John McHugh (mrmcq2u) wrote : | #1 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : | #3 |
[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]
| Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Expired |
it should be the responsibility of the browser (pulseaudio client) to assign diffferent name if the application using pa_stream_new to connect the the server multiple time