Talk App /Desktop Client | There is no output sound device options for speakers 🤪

(Note: I’m not looking for direct community support. This is to make Nextcloud and its developer team aware of the issue itself.)

It is absolutely silly that there is only a option for adding your microphone, but the developers have completely neglected the option to also add your headphones/speakers in the sound settings of Talk. What have NextCloud been thinking when building the Talk app /Desktop Client?

This is crazy and makes the app less useful. Nobody wants to have the sound from a online meeting coming out of the speakers or worse you cannot hear anything because you have no speakers connected to the system and since you have no out speaker/sound option you cannot do anything at all…

yeah… but its not a Nextcloud issue, check if there are “Jabra” updates

Ha ha… :joy: Spare me for the :cow: :poop:

Don’t start the old trick of blaming it on the customer e.g. in this case on my Jabra headset it works perfectly fine in all other communications applications.

It is indeed a Nextcloud Talk issue in that the dev team never added the option for adding the output device.

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thanks for that, glad you’re not my customer

Glad you’re not supplier. :wink:

The normal industry standard is that there is always a device option for:

  1. Input device - e.g. Microphone
  2. Output device - e.g. headphones / speaker
  3. Video camera

A few examples from other standard communication apps
Telegram:

Discord:

Skype:

But this option of choosing output device is clearly not built into Nextcloud Talk and is missing on both the web version, and the Desktop version.

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Before you start a fight :wink: that feature is currently in review feat: add selector for Audio Output 🔈 by Antreesy · Pull Request #12667 · nextcloud/spreed · GitHub

who’s fighting? we’re discussing with a light dispute… nothing wrong with that right @PowerQuest ? :star_struck:

That’s why I said “before” :wink: :wink:

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I just saw this edit, if that is your intention, I can only recommend to take a look at the GitHub issues and if there’s none, create one. Posting it here in the hope someone sees it will not work out.

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Yes, thank you, that is correct.

I added it afterwards because I did not wish to receive more silly stupid comments about my Jabra headset is the issue etc. as it is clearly not the issue here. The issue is how the developers built the “Talk” app and somehow missed to add an option for output sound device.

Nice to see that the issue is already to review on Github. :+1:

I really do not understand how you can miss to add the option of choosing output sound device. But hey… I guess things like this can happen and as such it did.

Its like building a Ferrari but you only add the front wheels and tires…

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As for @scubamuc
Its sometimes better just to stay silent and not comment on a thread at alll when you do not fully understand it’s topic/subject and/or have no knowledge about it.

Everything you said/claimed, plus your recommendation was 100% incorrect and thus not useful.

Advising forum users with the incorrect advise is harmful for the whole community which I think @SysKeeper indeed agrees with.

Thanks guys.
Kind regards

You really should tone it down a notch or two, especially since your own posts were not exactly humble and full of your own assumptions and prejudices. To be honest, you should be happy that someone replied at all.

@scubamuc does a lot of work for this community, and if he made an incorrect assumption here, so be it. We are all volunteers, trying to do our best to help and point people in the right direction, and there is, of course, no guarantee of help, just as with FOSS in general there is no guarantee that every feature you consider essential will be implemented immediately.

By the way, with a little effort you could have found the GitHub issue yourself. But then you wouldn’t have been able to tell us how crazy and silly it is that this feature isn’t already included. Yeah, the devs clearly must have forgotten about it :roll_eyes:

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