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Asked: 2021-10-29 09:26:33 +0800 CST

How can I get my selection of speaker to stick? It keeps resetting

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I have speakers built into one of my two monitors, headphones, and a USB microphone which for some reason is also detected as two different speaker options (there is no output if I select those options). I usually use the HDMI output, sometimes the headphones. But the selected Output Device constantly resets itself to the microphone, so whenever I join an online meeting, or try to play audio, I first have to open settings and reset it. Why does this happen, and how can I stop it? I'd like it to just stay on whatever it was last on.

Incidentally, if Zoom is set to use the default output device, and I change the default output device, Zoom does not pick up that change unless I change the Zoom output device and then change it back to default. But that's a minor irritant in the scheme of things.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release:    20.04
Codename:   focal
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