[alsa-devel] Confused about 'default' device

[Timur Tabi]

Clemens Ladisch wrote:

> Well, it always worked because mplayer does it itself.

I'm confused.  Are you saying the addition of .asoundrc somehow forces mplayer 
to do sample-rate conversion where before it didn't because it assumed that Alsa 
would do it?

> Please try this:
> 
>     pcm.!default = "plughw:0"
> 
> And if this works, there is something wrong with you default device
> definitions.  Please tell us the driver name and whether it has a file
> in /usr/share/alsa/cards/.

I definitely did not add anything to /usr/share/alsa/cards for my audio driver.