Bug 57228

According to a recent mailing list discussion[1], with the newest Skype version the system event sound volume control affects also the Skype event sound volume. Can you verify this?

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general/15000

This affected me today with "Klavaro" touch typing tutor program. The application plays the sound of each character that should be typed, so when you pressed one character the next is played. I wanted to output the Klavaro sound through my headset and keep music playing from my speakers. So from the "PulseAudio Volume Control" I wanted to set the playback stream to my headset. The problem was that the stream only shows for a maximum of a second each time so no time to change output device from the drop-down list.

### Workaround
For future users with the same problem this is the workaround I got suggested to use from IRC and it works (with a little bit of luck).

Open a terminal
$ pactl move-sink-input <sink-input-index> <new output device>

The command above use shell completion so if you have any sound playing you can test it by just using tab. Now close all applications that outputs sound.

Invoke the application you want to move to another output device so it plays some sound AND at the same time spam the <tab> key with the terminal in focus to try to find out what sink-input-index that application has. Do this ones more and take note of the increment of sink-input indexes.

As a final step now prepare the complete command in the terminal with a pre-incremented sink-input-index and play a sound from the application and press enter in the terminal while the sound is playing.

### From my terminal:
$ pactl move-sink-input (use shell completion while sound is playing)
1109
$ pactl move-sink-input (use shell completion while sound is playing)
1111
$ pactl move-sink-input 1113 <output-device> (prepare this command and press enter when the sound is playing next time)

### My spec.
I'm using xubuntu 14.04 Trust Tahr Alpha.
"pulseaudio --version" gives "pulseaudio 4.0"

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