Howto select the default soundcard for alsa?

[Harald Hoyer]

Just wanted to share my solution for a problem I had.

Edit ~/.asoundrc for personal settings or /etc/asound.conf for the global machine setting.
To select my second card I had to set parameters like this:

defaults.ctl.card 1
defaults.pcm.card 1

You may want to have a look in /etc/alsa/alsa.conf for the actual state and preferences.

Also run gstreamer-properties and set the audio to alsa.

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