Sound card as default

[Rootinator]

Hello,

PulseAudio is used as a driver on the Raspberry.

How can I set my external USB sound card as default here?

The following did not work:

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sudo nano /etc/asound.conf

pcm.!default {
 type hw
 card 1
 device 0
}

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sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

#change the index from -2 to 0:
options snd-usb-audio index=0

Both files do not exist. Even after creating these files it does not work.

bcm_2835 is disabled.

[andrum99]

If the built-in sound (bcm2835) is disabled, then your sound card will become the default without you needing to do anything. How did you disable bcm2835?

[Rootinator]

How did you disable bcm2835?

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sudo nano /boot/config.txt

dtparam=audio=off

If the built-in sound (bcm2835) is disabled, then your sound card will become the default without you needing to do anything.

That's the problem. The external sound card is only sporadically recognized and used.

With the command "aplay -l" it does not show a sound card at this time.


In addition, I always have, if I want to change the volume with

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alsamixer

first select the external sound card.

But how can I set the external sound card as default when PulseAudio is used?


The sound card works on another system with the driver "ALSA" without problems. There, however, PulseAudio was uninstalled

[Man in a van]

Hello,

PulseAudio is used as a driver on the Raspberry.

did you install PulseAudio yourself?

This is mine, rpi4b running Buster

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[email protected]:~ $ dpkg -s pulseaudio
dpkg-query: package 'pulseaudio' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files.
[email protected]:~ $

[Rootinator]

No, I downloaded a ready-made system and PulseAudio was already preinstalled there.

[Man in a van]

Well, do you neeed it/ can you remove it and use ALSA

[Man in a van]

A quick search found this for pulseaudio

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q ... dio-device

and I have used this on Stretch, not sure it's reaaly needed now. on Buster, but it should work

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q ... ian-jessie

I think tha main problem is tha your sound card is not being consistently recognised