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Select Audio Output Via Command Line
(lemm.ee)
Does anyone know how I can select my audio output via the command line? I'm frequently switching between using my monitors inbuilt speakers and a USB audio interface and I'm finding it laborious to navigiggerate graphically through the settings in GNOME to do so.
What I'd like to do is set up a couple of bash aliases and do it in my terminal.
What's the best way for me to do that?
Many thanks
pactl get short sinks
gets you a list of devices with a numerical identifier. And
pactl set-default-sink ID
Sets the default sink to the desired ID. I only ever want to swap between two so I wrots a bash script to do that. I just type 'aud' and it does it for me.