Yesterday and today I have been trying to solve a little problem o’mine. Since I started using the single computer for everything, there was a small dillema with sound. The thing is that I wanted to use the speakers to listen to mp3s and ogg, while use TV sound when watching movies. Having two sound cards in the same computer looked like a logical solution.<\/p>\n
Luckily, both sound cards (Creative and Intel) were detected and configured by The question was how to use one card with some applications while using another with others. The answer was pretty simple – Advanced Linux Sound Architecture also known as ALSA<\/a>.<\/p>\n The key here is the “device” argument and substituion of “:” with “=” and “,” with “.”.<\/p>\n Now, let Google<\/a> cache this post for me to never have this problem again.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n Yesterday and today I have been trying to solve a little problem o’mine. Since I started using the single computer for everything, there was a small dillema with sound. The thing is that I wanted to use the speakers to listen to mp3s and ogg, while use TV sound when watching movies. Having two sound … Continue reading Multiple sound carding with Linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[75,74],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","tag-sound","tag-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tsystem-config-sound<\/code>. Test sounds played nicely on both of them and I could even select the default sound card.<\/p>\naplay -l<\/code> will show a list of detected sound cards. From than on it’s a breeze. Here is an example for mplayer to use a non-default card:<\/p>\nmplayer -ao alsa:mmap:noblock:device=hw=1.0 -fs dvd:\/\/1<\/pre>\n