[ale] Audio from different apps to different destinations

[Ron]

Alex Carver via Ale wrote on 2025-10-26 14:41:

> How does one set up the audio subsystem to route audio from a
> particular application to a particular output device?

This might be dependent on the desktop in most cases?


> Right now I can only go to the sound configuration panel and select
> a particular device which sends all audio to it. Similarly for audio
> inputs.
For KDE, there's a widget on the "panel" for audio.

Scrolling on it raises / lowers volume.

Left-clicking gives a 2 panel pop-out with Applications and Devices.

Beside the Application -> Firefox entry for, say, YouTube, I click the 
hamburger menu and all output devices are listed and I can select 
Bluetooth speaker or headphones for *that instance* of Firefox.

I can adjust the output for each device separately too on the Devices panel.


It's really handy and powerful.

It's also the only desktop I've used in ages, so YMMV.