Hi,

Has pulseaudio/pipewire got to the stage where we can specify output
channels in our own way?

For instance, I use a Behringer UMC1820 for sound input/output.  It's a
multichannel thing, over 10 inputs and outputs.

You can record multichannel, that works fine (usually).  Occasionally
there's some restarting/rebooting fights to get things working with
Audacity (internal sound versus USB), and working at the correct speeds
(playback being slower than record, not knowing if one or both were
off-speed).  It might only take a system ding, or a website sound, to
suddenly make Audacity play slowly (speed and pitch change).

That kind of issue isn't too surprising, all things considered.  I
don't know if there's always a preset internal bitrate that pulseaudio
transcodes on demand, or it switches bitrates all the time to track the
input sources and output devices.  I mostly worked in 44100 bitrates
suited to CD audio, though now I'm trialling 48000 commonly used for
video applications, since compact disc usage is getting rarer.

Multichannel playback is another issue.  The OS thinks its a surround
sound system.  So for the few things that can do more than two-channel
stereo, it thinks the other outputs are a specific use for front, back,
side, left, right, which aren't actually the case.  It would be good if
there was a way to specify the purpose of each output in a custom way,
or even just have general purpose channel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.

Bye,
Tim.
 
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