Hello All I have an M-audio Audiophile 2496 and can happily route my playback either to it's internal mixer (PCM Out) or to SPDIF (SPDIF Out) using a command like aplay -Dplug:spdif myfile.wav. What I can't do is set up the default output to be SPDIF so that players like flac123 play automatically to SPDIF. I've been routing throught the docs now and found the command I need for my .asoundrc pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "spdif" } but this doesn't work and all the net examples are to do with dmix and routing to hardware that has spdif split out in it's driver. Any help appreciated, I will then add the details to the wikis... Bill -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/