I am using pulseaudio with 2 sound cards. I thought I'd share with you some observations i made comparing the two phonon backends.
I want amarok to use my second digital sound card, and I want system sounds to go to the analog device. Using the Phonon VLC back-end, I can direct Amarok to the proper device via veromix or pavucontrol, but if I don't have that same device as my default sink, then after each song, amarok reverts to using my default sink saying it has a higher priority for this application! I can move amarok back to the correct device and it switches back after each track. Very frustrating. I can't seem to force amarok to stick to the non-default sink. So I switched from using the Phonon VLC backend to using GStreamer backend. Now I can see 2 different devices from the Phonon Settings, and I can choose which one I prefer for system sounds vs music, which is nice. So I guess GStreamer works much better with my combination of sound cards and I will use that for now. debian testing - Amarok 2.7.1 Using KDE 4.8.4 (4.8.4)
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