Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Problems with Novation Speedio

From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Nov 23 2005 - 19:28:19 EET

Peter Clarke wrote:
> > Does "aplay something.wav" work?
>
> Running in XMMS (the GUI part), I can select the ALSA driver as the output
> plugin, then select "Speedio: USB Audio (hw:1,0)" for output.

This is an XMMS bug; the "hw" devices are for direct hardware access.

> If I run aplay somefile.wav, with no other parameters, it
> plays fine through the regular soundcard. But if I try
> aplay -Dhw:1,0 somefile.wav, I get an error: "Sample format
> non [sic] available".

To automatically convert the sample format, use "plughw:1".

HTH
Clemens
Received on Wed Nov 23 20:15:06 2005

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