Suggestion: use human-readable names for Pro Audio devices

• PipeWire version (pipewire --version): 0.3.83
• Distribution and distribution version (PRETTY_NAME from /etc/os-release): Manjaro Linux
• Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma 5.27
• Kernel version (uname -r): 6.1.60-1-MANJARO

Description of Problem:

When using the Pro Audio profile, all the output devices will be named as Built-in Audio Pro and Built-in Audio Pro X, where X is a number. That's quite annoying, making it more difficult to the end user.

If we look at either alsactl info or aplay -l or arecord -l, we can see the audio devices have good names in ALSA. If Pro Audio is exposing the underlying ALSA devices, why can't it use the underlying ALSA names?

Here's the output of alsactl info on my system:

- card: 0
  id: PCH
  name: HDA Intel PCH
  longname: HDA Intel PCH at 0xe1144000 irq 128
  driver_name: HDA-Intel
  mixer_name: Realtek ALC221
  components: HDA:10ec0221,103c8056,00100103 HDA:80862809,80860101,00100000
  controls_count: 43
  pcm:
    - stream: PLAYBACK
      devices:
        - device: 0
          id: ALC221 Analog
          name: ALC221 Analog
          subdevices:
            - subdevice: 0
              name: subdevice #0
        - device: 3
          id: HDMI 0
          name: Q27P1B
          subdevices:
            - subdevice: 0
              name: subdevice #0
        - device: 7
          id: HDMI 1
          name: Q27P1B
          subdevices:
            - subdevice: 0
              name: subdevice #0
        - device: 8
          id: HDMI 2
          name: HDMI 2
          subdevices:
            - subdevice: 0
              name: subdevice #0
    - stream: CAPTURE
      devices:
        - device: 0
          id: ALC221 Analog
          name: ALC221 Analog
          subdevices:
            - subdevice: 0
              name: subdevice #0

And here's how it looks in PipeWire Pro Audio:

Final thoughts

I have also described this issue on my blog post. (No ads, no tracking, nothing in there. I'm linking it here because I believe it is relevant to this issue.)

Anyway, I personally don't use the Pro Audio profile, so this issue doesn't affect me directly. However, if someday I need to use it, having human-readable names would be very welcome.