second sound card amarok - how to select.

[W Eryk Wolski]

Yes, - Alsa and xine is what I am using however:
I have the same settings like you. However, Alsa Device Configuration
is DISABLED. I am not able to set anything !

Running kubuntu drapper as normal user.


Kind regards

Eryk





On 10/15/06, Andrew Turner <andrewturner512 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Eryk,
>
> Assuming you are using the xine engine with ALSA as its output plugin,
> there should be a section called "ALSA Device Configuration", which
> lets you set the output device depending on whether it's a mono,
> stereo, 4 or 6 channel device. As I have selected Stereo 2.1 in the
> Speaker Arrangement box below, and have 2 speakers and a subwoofer,
> the box that matters to me is the Stereo box.
>
> By default the boxes contain:
> Mono: default
> Stereo: default
> 4 Channel: plug:surround40:0
> 6 Channel: plug:surround51:0
>
> If I wanted to use my second sound card, I would change the "default"
> to "plughw:1,0" under Stereo.
>
> If you're using Helix, probably someone else can help.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
> On 15/10/06, W Eryk Wolski <wewolski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Amarok users,
> >
> > I have a second usb soundcard which I would like to us with Amarok
> > instead of the primary output.
> >
> > I spend quite a while for searching the web for "second sound card
> > amarok" and related keywords but without much success except of
> > http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/extragear-multimedia/amarok/amarok.pdf
> > where on page 71 I found, exactly what I am asking for:
> >
> > I have a second soundcard and I'm using ALSA. How do I make Amarok use it
> > instead of the default?
> > In Settings!Configure Amarok!Engine, check the 'Device' checkbox
> > and fill in the device. Typical this is 'hw:0' for the default soundcard, and
> > 'hw:1' for the second soundcard.
> >
> > However in my configure dialog there is NO checkbock "Device" (Amarok 1.4.2).
> >
> >
> > I use ALSA and the primary soundcard is called hw:0,0 the secondary
> > hw:0,1 and both are working (as I was easily able to find out as a
> > complete linux newbee using xmms).
> >
> > Now I would like to know how to switch the soundcards using amarok....
> >
> > Actually, what would be really cool is to be able to use both
> > soundcards in parallel using amarok. If you have 2 soundcards you can
> > click with the right mouse button on the song and in the popdown menu
> > choose play with hw:0 or hw:1. Or is this already possible with some
> > amarok plug in.
> >
> > Sorry if this question has been already asked on this list but I did
> > not find a way to search the mail archaives.
> >
> > Regards.
> > Eryk
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