Re: [Hampshire] Kubuntu & multiple sound cards

2008/12/22 Dominic Cleal <dominic@???>:
> On Monday 22 December 2008 11:17:59 Vic wrote:
>> Now I want to get Amarok to play through it on Kubuntu. In whitebox,
>> that's just a case of setting up the default card - very easy and works
>> flawlessly. On Kubuntu, I went into "System setting", and the audio system
>> has a set of preferred devices for various categories of sound. So far so
>> good.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I just can't get it to work. Setting my external device as
>> the preferred unit makes no difference whatsoever: Amarok still uses the
>> internal device.
>
> Amarok uses the xine engine which has its own settings. If you go to
> Settings, Configure Amarok, Engines you can specify the ALSA devices for
> mono/stereo, instead of "default". I suspect it's a string, something
> like "hw:1,0" (for card 1, device 0), which you could confirm by
> reading /proc/asound/devices.
>
> --
> Dominic Cleal
> dominic@???
>

in the xine settings, change the various output devices to :1
E.g.
default:1
plug:front:1
plug:surround40:1
etc