[alsa-devel] Enumerating PCM devices

Hi Alsa developers/users,

For some reason my message got truncated earlier. So here I go again.

I'm using snd_device_name_hint("pcm"..) and then snd_device_name_get_hint(.."NAME") to get the NAME parameter of pcm devices. Is it true that all sound cards that support Alsa will *always* have "default" pcm device? I'm more inclined towards using "default:CARD=<vendor>" as the parameter to snd_pcm_open(). This way if the program configures hardware params for any number of channels then the appropriate PCM device will be selected on the sound card, correct?

Thanks, Bankim.