[Solved]Disable Audio Output Device

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[Solved]Disable Audio Output Device

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Is it possible to disable the audio output section of my PS4 controller and keep it disabled even when disconnected and reconnected.
As each time I plug my PS4 controller it, it becomes the default device and it is irritating setting the speakers as the default
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System:
  Kernel: 5.11.0-34-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.5 wm: muffin 5.0.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ZenBook UX425UAZ_UM425UAZ v: 1.0 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: UX425UAZ v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: UX425UAZ.301 date: 06/10/2021 
Battery:
  ID-1: BATT charge: 56.4 Wh condition: 64.8/63.1 Wh (103%) volts: 12.0/12.0 
  model: ASUSTeK UX425 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging 
  cycles: 14 
  Device-1: sony_controller_battery_1c:a0:b8:fd:06:80 model: N/A serial: N/A 
  charge: N/A status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 
  type: MT MCP arch: Zen rev: 1 L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 57494 
  Speed: 1397 MHz min/max: 1400/1800 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1648 2: 1396 3: 1219 4: 1393 5: 1877 6: 1254 7: 1397 8: 1397 9: 1395 
  10: 1504 11: 1508 12: 1724 13: 1397 14: 1997 15: 1397 16: 1397 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.0 
  chip ID: 1002:164c 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.40.0 5.11.0-34-generic LLVM 11.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 04:00.1 chip ID: 1002:1637 
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.5 
  chip ID: 1022:15e2 
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3 
  Device-4: Sony DualShock 4 [CUH-ZCT2x] type: USB 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,sony,usbhid bus ID: 3-2:2 chip ID: 054c:09cc 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-34-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 8086:2723 
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 596.19 GiB used: 374.99 GiB (62.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: JD4RT size: 119.25 GiB serial: <filter> 
  scheme: MBR 
  ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital 
  model: PC SN530 SDBPTPZ-512G-1002 size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s 
  lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 21106000 scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 466.52 GiB used: 256.18 GiB (54.9%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 40 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linuxmint-packages uma main upstream import backport
  2: deb http://mirror.intergrid.com.au/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://mirror.intergrid.com.au/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://mirror.intergrid.com.au/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xtradeb-apps-focal.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xtradeb/apps/ubuntu focal main
Info:
  Processes: 371 Uptime: 19m Memory: 15.09 GiB used: 2.24 GiB (14.9%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 
Thank you.

Solved by installing pavucontrol.
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