Should --mixer=hardware be default for the pulse player?

[tremby]

I found that if I run snapclient with --player pulse --mixer hardware volume changes from snapserver update Pulseaudio's readout of the Snapcast client's volume, which is good. It's coupled both ways, too.

I'm wondering if when using --player pulse, --mixer=hardware should be the default.

[badaix]

Agree, should be default for Pulseaudio. Changing the default is not that straight forward, the default is already given on top most level in the program options. I might change the mixer default to "not-set" and choose a player backend dependent default in this case.

[badaix]

I would even say that PulseAudio should be the default audio backend on Systems that have PulseAudio installed, i.e. for desktop systems.