09198: Portaudio: No sound is heard from the device specified as PortAudio

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
09198	Sound	Minor	Always	13 days ago	12 days ago

Tester	tenpar	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To		Resolution	Invalid report	OS	Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
Status [?]	Closed			Driver
Version	0.278	Fixed in Version		Build
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	09198: Portaudio: No sound is heard from the device specified as PortAudio
Description	When using PortAudio, sound is not played on the device specified by pa_device in mame.ini, but on the OS default device. Is pa_device or PortAudio itself disabled?
Steps To Reproduce	1. Change the following settings in mame.ini. sound portaudio pa_api "Windows WASAPI" pa_device *Specify an output device other than the OS default 2. Run a sound game with MAME and check the sound output device.
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No.23431 hap Developer 12 days ago edited on: 12 days ago	These options were deliberately removed: -pa_api -pa_device -pa_latency and FWIW these too: -compressor -speaker_report -sound dsound MAME currently has no way to specify what is the [default] sound device, for any sound option. If you want a different one, you have to configure it for each game, which kind of sucks and I hope MAME will add a setting for that.
No.23432 tenpar Tester 12 days ago edited on: 12 days ago	What use is PortAudio without pa_api? Planning to remove PortAudio? That's a shame. It would be nice to be able to specify devices other than PortAudio, since it has not been possible so far.
No.23433 cuavas Administrator 12 days ago	You can select the device in the mixer menu.
No.23435 tenpar Tester 12 days ago	I found the menu. It looks quite difficult but I will try various things.