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Pulseaudio 14 has just landed in the unstable repository. There's a significant amount of changes in its [latest release notes](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/14.0/), some of the biggest ones is: - The issue which prevented us from upgrading to 13.x, related to HDMI being the default audio device, has now been resolved! Hopefully we can avoid instances like {R2493:73148b1f32ddc91bb0061269c7ff6ee8b3e9d0fd}. I've personally tested it with my NVIDIA GPUs and haven't seen it defaulting to it, but I welcome more testing in regards to this, hence the task. From Pulseaudio's release notes: > PulseAudio 13.0 started to switch output to HDMI automatically when module-switch-on-connect was loaded (upstream PulseAudio doesn't load it by default, but some distributions do). This change was not intentional, and caused very annoying behaviour in cases where waking up the monitor from sleep appears as a plug-in event in ALSA. Now module-switch-on-connect has a configurable blacklist, which by default prevents switching to HDMI devices. The blacklist is configured with a module argument, named "blacklist", which takes a regular expression that is matched against sink and source names. The default blacklist regular expression is "hdmi". To disable all blacklisting, you can pass "" (empty string) as the module argument value. - `flat-volumes` is now disabled by default! From Pulseaudio's release notes: > Flat volumes have always been a controversial feature in PulseAudio. With flat volumes the stream volumes control also the sink volume. In the simple case of only one stream, the stream and the sink volume are always the same. In case of multiple streams, the sink volume is set to the maximum of the stream volumes. The purpose of this is to simplify the volume control of an application: the full volume range is always available via the application volume slider, so there's no need to think about the sink volume. In practice, however, this has caused more harm than good (the worst problem is that some applications automatically set their stream volume to 100%, causing the audio to be played at the maximum volume that the hardware can produce), and most large distributions have patched PulseAudio to disable flat volumes by default. Now that patching won't be needed any more. - Better support for USB gaming headsets. Should help folks like @TClark77. From Pulseaudio's release notes: > Custom configuration was enabled for a few headset models: > > HyperX Cloud Orbit S > LucidSound LS31 > Razer Kraken Tournament Edition > SteelSeries Arctis 5 (2019 edition) > SteelSeries Arctis Pro (2019 edition) > >PulseAudio now creates separate stereo and mono (voice) sinks for these headsets. --- I've love if folks on the unstable repository could test Pulseaudio 14.0, confirming that aspects such as their default audio devices, audio switching, output and input don't have any notable regressions that would warrant reverting again to 12.x Thanks!

Pulseaudio 14 has just landed in the unstable repository via {R2493:5df0af8c003529707c30e80bafdf0a59b94f2fa7}. There's a significant amount of changes in its [latest release notes](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/14.0/), some of the biggest ones is: - The issue which prevented us from upgrading to 13.x, related to HDMI being the default audio device, has now been resolved! Hopefully we can avoid instances like {R2493:73148b1f32ddc91bb0061269c7ff6ee8b3e9d0fd}. I've personally tested it with my NVIDIA GPUs and haven't seen it defaulting to it, but I welcome more testing in regards to this, hence the task. From Pulseaudio's release notes: > PulseAudio 13.0 started to switch output to HDMI automatically when module-switch-on-connect was loaded (upstream PulseAudio doesn't load it by default, but some distributions do). This change was not intentional, and caused very annoying behaviour in cases where waking up the monitor from sleep appears as a plug-in event in ALSA. Now module-switch-on-connect has a configurable blacklist, which by default prevents switching to HDMI devices. The blacklist is configured with a module argument, named "blacklist", which takes a regular expression that is matched against sink and source names. The default blacklist regular expression is "hdmi". To disable all blacklisting, you can pass "" (empty string) as the module argument value. - `flat-volumes` is now disabled by default! From Pulseaudio's release notes: > Flat volumes have always been a controversial feature in PulseAudio. With flat volumes the stream volumes control also the sink volume. In the simple case of only one stream, the stream and the sink volume are always the same. In case of multiple streams, the sink volume is set to the maximum of the stream volumes. The purpose of this is to simplify the volume control of an application: the full volume range is always available via the application volume slider, so there's no need to think about the sink volume. In practice, however, this has caused more harm than good (the worst problem is that some applications automatically set their stream volume to 100%, causing the audio to be played at the maximum volume that the hardware can produce), and most large distributions have patched PulseAudio to disable flat volumes by default. Now that patching won't be needed any more. - Better support for USB gaming headsets. Should help folks like @TClark77. From Pulseaudio's release notes: > Custom configuration was enabled for a few headset models: > > HyperX Cloud Orbit S > LucidSound LS31 > Razer Kraken Tournament Edition > SteelSeries Arctis 5 (2019 edition) > SteelSeries Arctis Pro (2019 edition) > >PulseAudio now creates separate stereo and mono (voice) sinks for these headsets. --- I've love if folks on the unstable repository could test Pulseaudio 14.0, confirming that aspects such as their default audio devices, audio switching, output and input don't have any notable regressions that would warrant reverting again to 12.x Thanks!

Pulseaudio 14 has just landed in the unstable repository via {R2493:5df0af8c003529707c30e80bafdf0a59b94f2fa7}. There's a significant amount of changes in its [latest release notes](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/14.0/), some of the biggest ones is: - The issue which prevented us from upgrading to 13.x, related to HDMI being the default audio device, has now been resolved! Hopefully we can avoid instances like {R2493:73148b1f32ddc91bb0061269c7ff6ee8b3e9d0fd}. I've personally tested it with my NVIDIA GPUs and haven't seen it defaulting to it, but I welcome more testing in regards to this, hence the task. From Pulseaudio's release notes: > PulseAudio 13.0 started to switch output to HDMI automatically when module-switch-on-connect was loaded (upstream PulseAudio doesn't load it by default, but some distributions do). This change was not intentional, and caused very annoying behaviour in cases where waking up the monitor from sleep appears as a plug-in event in ALSA. Now module-switch-on-connect has a configurable blacklist, which by default prevents switching to HDMI devices. The blacklist is configured with a module argument, named "blacklist", which takes a regular expression that is matched against sink and source names. The default blacklist regular expression is "hdmi". To disable all blacklisting, you can pass "" (empty string) as the module argument value. - `flat-volumes` is now disabled by default! From Pulseaudio's release notes: > Flat volumes have always been a controversial feature in PulseAudio. With flat volumes the stream volumes control also the sink volume. In the simple case of only one stream, the stream and the sink volume are always the same. In case of multiple streams, the sink volume is set to the maximum of the stream volumes. The purpose of this is to simplify the volume control of an application: the full volume range is always available via the application volume slider, so there's no need to think about the sink volume. In practice, however, this has caused more harm than good (the worst problem is that some applications automatically set their stream volume to 100%, causing the audio to be played at the maximum volume that the hardware can produce), and most large distributions have patched PulseAudio to disable flat volumes by default. Now that patching won't be needed any more. - Better support for USB gaming headsets. Should help folks like @TClark77. From Pulseaudio's release notes: > Custom configuration was enabled for a few headset models: > > HyperX Cloud Orbit S > LucidSound LS31 > Razer Kraken Tournament Edition > SteelSeries Arctis 5 (2019 edition) > SteelSeries Arctis Pro (2019 edition) > >PulseAudio now creates separate stereo and mono (voice) sinks for these headsets. --- I've love if folks on the unstable repository could test Pulseaudio 14.0, confirming that aspects such as their default audio devices, audio switching, output and input don't have any notable regressions that would warrant reverting again to 12.x Thanks!