portaudio / coreaudio device specification by name and not port?

[sogorman]

In OSX, port audiodevice IDs change form time to time. Currently before stating UG I have to have a script interrogate the current port audio indexes to get the correct index ID for the device I want to use. Would it be possible and or beneficial to specify the device name?

(base) sogorman@Seans-MacBook-Pro-4 MacOS % ./uv -s coreaudio:help 
UltraGrid 1.8.6 (tags/v1.8.6 rev 6328048 built Oct 20 2023 14:32:46)

Available Core Audio capture devices:
   coreaudio    : Default CoreAudio capture
   coreaudio:97 : Sean?s iPhone 14 Microphone
   coreaudio:92 : MacBook Pro Microphone
   coreaudio:75 : Microsoft Teams Audio
Exit
(base) sogorman@Seans-MacBook-Pro-4 MacOS % 

so if I wnated to use my macbook pro microphone I would use

(base) sogorman@Seans-MacBook-Pro-4 MacOS % ./uv -s coreaudio:92  

It would be awesome to call UG like this

(base) sogorman@Seans-MacBook-Pro-4 MacOS % ./uv -s coreaudio:"MacBook Pro Microphone"

[MartinPulec]

Actually, it is already implemented in 1.9.x versions (obviously also in continuous):

UltraGrid 1.9.2 (tags/v1.9.2 rev 0d8eaf2 built Apr 29 2024 11:16:31)

Core Audio capture usage:
        -s coreaudio[:<index>|:<name>]
where
        <name> - device name substring (case sensitive)

Available Core Audio capture devices:
        coreaudio    : Default CoreAudio capture
        coreaudio:76 : BlackHole 16ch
        coreaudio:91 : MacBook Pro Microphone
Exit

The usage is exactly as you write – -s coreaudio:"MacBook Pro Microphone". (Note that I've noticed that the name doesn't work for the default one for now. I'll fix it, but it shouldn't be a big deal since you can still use -s coreaudio for the default.)