I have searched all around and combined items in an /etc/asound.conf file to have by default a capture and multiple playback for alsa. I am looking for a way to: something like "aplay --nonblock test.wav" having at least 2 active one time and at that same time do "arecord --nonblock -d 1 input.wav" I have something like: pcm.!dmixer { type dmix # plugin type ipc_key 5678293 # unique ipc id ipc_perm 0666 # would like to use icp_group instead ipc_key_add_uid no # share the same mixer with all users slave { pcm "hw:0,0" period_time 0 # needed by oss (= 0) period_size 1024 # needed by oss (= 2^n) period_size 8192 # needed by oss (= 2^n) format S16_LE rate 48000 } } pcm.!dsnoop { type dsnoop # plugin type ipc_key 5678293 # unique ipc id ipc_perm 0666 # would like to use icp_group instead ipc_key_add_uid no # share the same mixer with all users slave { pcm "hw:1,0" period_time 0 # needed by oss (= 0) period_size 1024 # needed by oss (= 2^n) period_size 8192 # needed by oss (= 2^n) format S16_LE rate 48000 } } That sort of works. However when playing a wav file and recording sometimes I get record overrun errors and then the "-d1" does NOT stop after 1 second. Does anyone have a working mulitple playback and capture asound.conf file???? Thanks for sharing if you do. Jerry