Lee Revell wrote: > On 4/19/07, nick smethurst <nick.smethurst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am rather confused that I am getting crossed information when >> calling snd_names_list >> and snd_pcm_info in order to gather information about pcm devices. > > I think ALSA's new device enumeration API can do this for you. See > the implementation of aplay -l (or -L, don't remember which) in the > latest alsa-utils. Ok, thanks for the hint (no pun intended :) ). I see that the pcm_list() function has changed in aplay. The new hints API looks good. However, I note that snd_device_name_hint() does not return hw, plughw, plug, dmix, etc. Are these obtained elsewhere? I would like to build a complete list of all available devices in order to allow the user to select them from a dropdown list in a GUI. Nicholas _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel