Changing Audio-Source Index about swyh-rs

[dheijl]

I chose the device index for cli because it is easier to type, without considering the possibility of the index changing as you plug in or remove devices...
I suppose I will have to add the possibility of specifying a name (perhaps a unique substring of the name would do?).

[benkra66]

it only happened to me because i wrote a simple batch script that starts swyh-rs-cli and changes my default audio device to some unplugged SPDIF port so that the sound only gets played via my Volumio Server.

Since it's only ever written once i guess using the full device name as it is displayed under the "sound_source" variable in the config_cli.toml as well as the program log under "name"

16:17:00 [INFO] tb_log: Found Audio Source: index = 4, name = MeteorStereo (High Definition Audio Device)

wouldnt be to much of a hassle.

Parsing the string and selecting a matching device via grep (or some similar function) would certainly be possible but could always result in some weird behavior with two similar named devices.

[dheijl]

Parsing the string and selecting a matching device via grep (or some similar function) would certainly be possible but could always result in some weird behavior with two similar named devices.

That's why I wrote "a unique substring". There's also the problem of two identically named cards (it does happen!) to tackle. That's why a sound source index exists in the config as well as the name..

[benkra66]

That's why I wrote "a unique substring". There's also the problem of two identically named cards (it does happen!) to tackle. That's why a sound source index exists in the config as well as the name..

sorry, i misunderstood what you ment by "unique substring", since i thought the device name windows uses would for sure be unique.
I just tested it because i havent thought it would allow two identically named devices.. but it does.

[benkra66]

Some more testing.

Since the "given" name of a specific audio device can easily be changed in the Windows sound settings and is reflected in the config of swyh-rs a name collision could easily be circumvented.

But, to be honest, i have no idea how a change like this would affect other Operating systems.

[dheijl]

I think I will allow to append a :n to the name string (where n is the zero-based position of the duplicate card name).

[dheijl]

It all works here, if you're prepared to test I can make a pre-release.
You just specify -s some-unique-substring-of-the-name, or if they are not unique, append a :n to the substring.
The old way of specifying an index works as before.

[benkra66]

Sure, i can test it whenever youre ready

[dheijl]

You can try the new prerelease.

Any comments welcome.

[benkra66]

Hello, sorry for replying so late, work got the better of me in the last few days.
I tried some different combinations, changing audio card names and devices.
As far as i can tell everything works exactly as expected and i can address all of my cards via their respective name. For the Windows side of things i couldn't find any Problems.
Big Thanks, this change spared me of some Headache when changing devices.

[dheijl]

Glad that it works. I expect to release 1.10.0 soon.

[dheijl]

As 1.10.0 is released I'll close this now.