[linux-audio-user] switching sound cards on the fly?

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 17:26 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I realize this is probably better directed toward some list like
> alsa-user but since I'm not a member let me try here.
> 
>    The machine here in the living room has two sound cards - one
> internal and an external USB device that pumps out optical into my
> home theater equipment. The internal card is the default Alsa device
> and anytime I want to use the external device I have to make a Gnome
> launcher to specifically point the audio to hw:1,0.
> 
>    My question is whether Alsa has a user level mechanism to allow me
> in a terminal, on the fly, to switch which card Gnome considers my
> default sound card?
> 
>    I was wondering about flipping a bit somewhere and directing
> Internet radio in my browser to the stereo instead of the wimpy PC
> speaker we have on my wife's box.

Mark, if you can afford a Squeezebox, buy one. you will not regret it.

--p