changing soundcards

[Jude DaShiell]

If those options will work, it's time you wrote bash scripts so when you 
start an application those options get run on the command line 
automatically.

On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:13:39
> From: Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net>
> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: changing soundcards
> 
> Kristoffer Gustafsson writes:
>> Hi.
>> I don't really want to modify config files.
>
>
> Well ...
>
>> I just want to change soundcard.
>> For example if I've got two in the computer I want to choose wich card to use.
>
> aplay -D plughw:[your.device.of.choice] [your.audio.file]
>
> There are similar options for ecasound, mplayer, others, e.g.
>
> mplayer -ao alsa:device=plughw=4.0
>
>
> PS: Yes, I do have 4 audio devices on my main machine.
>
>> I'll look into this. Last time I had my machine running I got no amixer at all.
>
>
> If you don't have amixer, you should install it. It's a standard tool
> from the alsa suite, unlike aumix, as I've previously pointed out.
>
> PPS: Another way to find your cards:
>
> aplay -l |grep card
>
> However, if there are two USB cards, the above won't tell you which is
> which.
>
> Janina
>
>
>> I ended up using aumix.
>> /Kristoffer
>>
>> 2015-08-10 21:09 GMT+02:00, Kristoffer Gustafsson <kg.kristoffer at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi.
>>> I've decided to try out my usb soundcard in debian.
>>> But how do I change what card it uses?
>>> I used alsaconf Before, but that doesn't exist any longer.
>>> /Kristoffer
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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>> Kristoffer Gustafsson
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>>
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