I am trying to set the input and output sinks for 2 applications on pavucontrol (PulseAudio Volume Control). I can do it on Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop:
But on Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS I cannot seem to do it (via pacmd or pactl).
How can this be done?
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"I cannot seem to do it"? Did you try it? – davidbaumann Mar 06 '18 at 10:44
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Of course, I tried via pacmd or pactl.. – NickMick Mar 06 '18 at 12:23
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And what was the result? – davidbaumann Mar 06 '18 at 13:16
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1I could not find the the recording application (sources), it was not listed. Also, I could not find a command that will specify a specific input or output sink to that application – NickMick Mar 06 '18 at 13:35
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I found a good answer for this here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/208784/246486 – Dave Yarwood Jun 05 '19 at 15:23
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Does this answer your question? [How do I switch the audio outputs of an audio device from CLI?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1011806/how-do-i-switch-the-audio-outputs-of-an-audio-device-from-cli) – pdpino Feb 28 '22 at 15:38