On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 08:34 -0400, Stephen E. Baker wrote: > it involves being able to identify which device your usb sound > device is. "So run: udevinfo -a -p /sys/block/sda (replace sda with you device)" - http://www.banquise.org/hardware/how-to-automatically-run-a-script-after-inserting-a-usb-device-on-ubuntu/ What is the name for the sound device? FWIW, you get unique device name listed in /proc/asound/ A Swissonic device spinymouse@precise:~$ ls -hAl /proc/asound/ | grep card3 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 18 15:14 card3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jun 18 15:14 U0x170b0x11 -> card3 A Korg device spinymouse@precise:~$ ls -hAl /proc/asound/ | grep card3 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 18 15:14 card3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jun 18 15:14 nanoKONTROL -> card3 but what names are used for "udevinfo -a -p /sys/block/[...]"? spinymouse@precise:~$ ls /sys/block/ loop0 loop2 loop4 loop6 ram0 ram10 ram12 ram14 ram2 ram4 ram6 ram8 sda sr0 loop1 loop3 loop5 loop7 ram1 ram11 ram13 ram15 ram3 ram5 ram7 ram9 sdb