Comment by konart

5 years ago

I'd rather use https://staticz.com/soundcontrol/ (which I do use actually) than rely on an app like Spotify to be honest.

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vladvasiliu  5 years ago

This. I absolutely hate it when apps try to be smart and use their own audio routing.

I'm a Linux user and have multiple audio outputs. I've configured Spotify to always go to my amp / speakers. And it works great.

But then there's Teams, which is absolute sh*tshow. It always says "custom configuration" but you never know where it goes, and partially ignores the configuration in PulseAudio / PipeWire.

I understand why they do this, random users may find it more useful to have this choice directly in front of them, and I would agree... if it worked well! Zoom at least has the good taste to have an entry for "use system settings", which seems to mostly work.

I think that aside from "specialty" applications (like DAWs, etc) regular apps have no business messing around with the system audio settings.

  • jfrunyon  5 years ago

    > I think that aside from "specialty" applications (like DAWs, etc)

    Or... like audio players, maybe?

    And it's not messing around with the system audio settings; it's selecting a audio device other than the system-wide default.