[11:26] <BrianHechinger[m> Eickmeyer @Eickmeyer:libera.chat: ugh, i give up. This is a mess. Running that stuff you tell me to results in an empty grub menu. Now boot-repair fixes it but it kernel panics. I'm just doing a fresh install. 😭
[13:21] <BrianHechinger[m> OvenWerks: Where does studio-controls save its config?
[13:30] <BrianHechinger[m> never mind, I found it
[15:33] <OvenWerks> BrianHechinger[m: the autojack config file gets rewritten every time a device change is detected as well as at startup.
[15:33] <OvenWerks> This is aside from when the user makes changes :)
[16:38] <BrianHechinger[m> I was asking because my pulse bridges were all gone.
[16:39] <BrianHechinger[m> thought maybe that wasn't saved in my home dir (which made no sense, but just checking)
[17:03] <OvenWerks> BrianHechinger[m: why version of studio-controls? try 2.3.5
[17:05] <BrianHechinger[m> 2.3.1 is what's installed but I haven't enabled backports yet
[17:05] <BrianHechinger[m> I don't think
[17:06] <OvenWerks> BrianHechinger[m: I have "toyed" with the idea of splitting the config and the device data into two files. I have not done so because some of the data in the device section is user settable
[17:07] <OvenWerks> At this very moment I have just thought that it would still be ok to have some parts of the device data in config and other variable parts in a second file. More thought required :)
[17:09] <OvenWerks> The whole problem is with things like USB microphones which are often the exact same device.
[17:10] <OvenWerks> And, even though the USB 2 spec does include a device serial number, very few audio device manufactures have a serial number other 0
[17:12] <OvenWerks> Even devices made by more than one manufacture often have the same device name ( "Device" is quite popular) so I have to look for the ID (manufacture, model) and the physical usb port it is plugged into.
[17:14] <OvenWerks> So what might be Device at one boot, might be Device_1 at next. I take them all and call them USB1, USB2, etc. on the user side. where USB1 always has the same model and usb port.
[17:15] <OvenWerks> so if the user plugs it into a different usb port we see it as a different device :)
[17:19] <OvenWerks> But if someone does pod casts with three mics, they can label the ports on their computer and know what they will be when they mix.
[18:21] <BrianHechinger[m> That's so annoying. It's too bad they never had a settable field as part of the standard.
[23:17] <OvenWerks> BrianHechinger[m: when the cost of the USB device is $5 asking for much of anything more than sound out is already a stretch. A lot of USB mics are the same price as the same non-usb mic...