[linux-audio-user] some apps don't work with usb-audio

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 22:21 +0100, Martin Kuball wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have a Griffin iMic USB audio device. It works well using aplay and 
> xmms with the usb device I configured in my asoundrc.
> 
> But I cannot get ogg123 to work with this. E.g. 
> 
> 	ogg123 -d alsa09 -o dev:usb tr30.ogg
> 
> 	Audio Device:   Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) output
> 	Playing: tr30.ogg
> 	Ogg Vorbis stream: 2 channel, 44100 Hz
> 	ALSA snd_pcm_hw_params_set_format error: the argument is invalid
> 	Error: Cannot open device alsa09.
> 
> Amarok with libxine and device usb gives: device is busy.
> 
> The xine player always uses the usb device when available as if it 
> were the default. When usb is not plugged in, the internal soundcard 
> is used.
> 
> I'm running these on an iBook, kernel 2.6.15 and debian sid.
> 
> Now can anybody tell me what's going on here? Are these known bugs or 
> do I make something wrong?

Please post your .asoundrc