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

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
09198	Sound	Minor	Always	Jul 5, 2025, 04:28	Jul 5, 2025, 09:47

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 Jul 5, 2025, 07:10 edited on: Jul 5, 2025, 07:13	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 Jul 5, 2025, 07:29 edited on: Jul 5, 2025, 08:44	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 Jul 5, 2025, 08:52	You can select the device in the mixer menu.
No.23435 tenpar Tester Jul 5, 2025, 09:47	I found the menu. It looks quite difficult but I will try various things.