Should the spec define specific static audio output device IDs

[youennf]

It might be useful to define specific values for audio output device IDs.
Such values could be:

• 'default' or '', Go back to the default output #85
• 'earpiece' (and potentially 'speaker'), most useful for phones that have both a loudspeaker and an earpiece
• 'none': mute a whole page

[bradisbell]

As a web developer, it would be much better to see these as attributes of devices. It's a frustrating user experience today for media capture to show a user a list of microphones, three of which are potentially the same thing. It's unfortunate to have to carry that problem forward into new APIs.

[guest271314]

Cannot the values from pacmd or pactl be used? Missing from the list is 'speech-dispatcher'.

[carlsmith]

DJ software needs to send different audio to the speakers and the headphones, and needs to know which is which.