[alsa-devel] how to enumerate useful ALSA devices?

[Raymond Yau]

2012/1/5, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi>:
> On 04.01.2012 22:47, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> On 04.01.2012 21:49, Andrew Eikum wrote:
>
>>> So I'm really stuck here. Where am I supposed to get a list of devices
>>> that I can present to the user, including their Bluetooth devices and
>>> virtual devices from asound.conf?
>>
>> I guess the preferred one is 'snd_device_name_hint()', but I don't
>> really know if the caller is supposed to then handle surroundXX stuff
>> themself.
>
> Reading your last reply made me realize that I forgot that when
> pulseaudio is not configured, there is also the "default:CARD=foo"
> device listed (which you noticed), so I guess one could just ignore
> entries beginning with "front:" or "surround(40|41|50|51|71):", since
> one can just use "default" instead of them.
>

No , this won't work for emu10k1 and ca0106

snd-emu10k1 require "front", "surround40","surround51" and
"surround71"  which use "multi" plugin of "front" , "rear" , "clfe" or
"side" devices

you can play stereo stream to "rear" device