How to set wireless USB headphones as default sound card for applciations

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I have Logitech wireless USB headphones. I have the system recognizing the headphones and I can play the test music clip in the sound setup under YAST. The problem is how do I get the application to recognize the headphones. YAST shows three sound cards as follows

0 - Logitech USB headphones (this is set as default)
1 - A HMDI port on the ATI card
2 - SBx00 Azalia

the driver for the Logitech headphones is snb-usb-audio

When I try to play a wav file using Amarok or VLC there is no option for the headphones even if I try to configure the backend which BTW resets as soon as I apply and exit. The headphones also do not appear in Kmixer.

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You may need to install pulse plugins.
Go to yast2-software management and
search for “pulse” and post back.

3

You can configure the USB headphones in YaST.

if the test sound works in YaST (which has root permissions) but not as a regular user there are a couple of possibilities that come to my mind.

  • there is a permissions problem, and/or
  • the applications are assigned in pulse to send the audio to a device other than the USB headphones

One can control where pulse audio sends the audio, on an application basis, using the program pulse audio volume control (pavucontrol).

Here are a couple of blog links with information on using pavucontrol:

Good luck, and thankyou for posting.

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I think that the OP USB headphone maybe work just like a usb speaker.
I have a bose usb speaker and I made it as the primary sound in yast
enable the simultaneous sound in paprefs and use pavucontrol and xfce4-mixer
to configure the sound output device and playback.