How to prevent automatic audio output switching? (solved)

[tmilovan]

Hi,

I'm using external USB DAC that is set to go to standby when it is not used. Whenever that happens sound output is automatically switched to default and I have to manually switch MPD to external DAC again whenever I turn it on.

Is there a way to prevent this behavior and just let the audio output stay configured to use the external USB DAC all the time?

Thanks.

[hondagx35]

Hi tmilovan,

on startup Rune checks if the current selected device is available.
If not it tries to find an other output device.
This is done in rune_SY_wrk see .

You can try to uncomment this line.
The file to edit is /var/www/command/rune_SY_wrk

Frank

[tmilovan]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately that does not affect the problem. As soon as I switch the external USB DAC off, mpd switches to the next available card and stays there until I switch the DAC on again, and manually select it from the settings.

[hondagx35]

[tmilovan]

Great, that's it. Thanks.