[alsa-devel] Why does `aplay -L' not show PCM's defined in ~/.asoundrc ?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 01 Dec 2013 11:45:10 -0800,
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> Why does `aplay -L' not list PCM's that are defined in ~/.asoundrc (i.e. 
> PCM's implemented by plugins)?
> 
> How do you get a listing that includes these?
> 
> I was helping a user today who needed to set up a device using the 
> `multi' plugin -- and the fact that the new virtual pcm device didn't 
> show up in any standard listing made things very confusing.

You need to define the description for your own PCM definition.
Or set defaults.namehint.showall on in ~/.asoundrc.


Takashi