Answer by astooooooo for How to make Alsa pick a preferred sound device...
Here is a variant of Matija Nalis and Tel's answers. This is what worked for me:~/.asoundrcdefaults.pcm.!card 1defaults.ctl.!card 1(Odroid C0, Debian Jessie, HDMI audio as card 0 and USB Sound Card as...
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The answer from Matija Nalis only half worked for me (alsamixer changed default, but other things like aplay and firefox stubbornly stuck with the wrong default). This example from the debian wiki...
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While you can change the default alsa card by editing .asoundrc or the system asound.conf there are a couple of significant issues with this approach.It's fragile, and requires application restarts to...
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I also couldnt get output from my USB device. My cat /proc/asound/modules output was:0 snd_hda_intel1 snd_hda_intel2 snd_usb_audioI have tried both answer described here which didnt help (with many...
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this is the method for selecting default sound card in Alsa. You may want to install Alsa for this method to work if you are using Pulse Audio.cat /proc/asound/moduleswill list your sound modules .The...
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Find your card with$ cat /proc/asound/cardsTo get valid ALSA card names, use aplay:$ aplay -land then create /etc/asound.conf with following:pcm.!default { type hw card 1}ctl.!default { type hw card...
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I bought an USB sound card. I'd like to set up my Linux desktop so that it prefers the USB device, if it is plugged in and automatically switches as the device is (un)plugged. Is it possible, and how?
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