On Sun, 2008-12-07 12:23:53 +0000, Jim Higson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't have a landline so I talk a lot on Skype using my USB headset. This 
> is great, but sometimes I want to put it on speaker, like when I'm on hold 
> at my bank for a long time.

So the basic point is that you'd like to have a switching matrix
between physical inputs/outputs and logical streams.

I have a similar setup (a number of sound cards, plus I want to feed a
RTP stream to the network), which I use with Pulseaudio. So Pulseaudio
is the switching matrix, using ALSA for low-level device access. This
works quite nice, allowing eg. volume control per virtual channel,
interruption-free (and transparent for the application) move from one
sound input/output device to another, ...

MfG, JBG

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