Ubuntu – PulseAudio: Can not create sink with specific name anymore

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Since having upgraded to Oneiric I can not create a sink in PulseAudio with a specific name. Usually I did it using this command:

pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=test

But now I get a sink with out the specified name. All sinks created are named »Null-Sink« and it does not seem to be possible to rename a sink.
Is this a bug in Pulse?

Best Answer

To give another name for a newly created sink we may issue the following command

pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=ANYNAME sink_properties=device.description="our_new_name"

This will also update the device.description field that contains the name of our newly created sink as it will be displayed in the sound preferences menu.

If you omit this the internal name of your sink is still test in your example as you will find out by running

pacmd list-sinks

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I had the same problem as you. I'm using Ubuntu 20.04, and in my case the changes that I did to default.pa was the next ones:

load-module module-echo-cancel source_name=noechosource sink_name=noechosink
set-default-source noechosource
set-default-sink noechosink

Besides, these changes were also included in system.pa. Like in your case, every time I login, I had to execute pulseaudio -k to make pulseaudio load these settings. What I did to solve this problem was to modify the ~/.profile and add these lines at the end of the file:

chrome_open=$(pgrep chrome)
if [ -z "$chrome_open" ]
then
    pulseaudio -k
fi

So every time I login and if Chrome is not open, this command is executed. I use this if statement because if Chorme is open and pulseaudio -k is executed, it is necessary to reload it. I don't know if this is the best solution but it works for me and I hope this answer helps someone like us.

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