Peter Clarke wrote: > > Does "aplay something.wav" work? > > Running in XMMS (the GUI part), I can select the ALSA driver as the output > plugin, then select "Speedio: USB Audio (hw:1,0)" for output. This is an XMMS bug; the "hw" devices are for direct hardware access. > If I run aplay somefile.wav, with no other parameters, it > plays fine through the regular soundcard. But if I try > aplay -Dhw:1,0 somefile.wav, I get an error: "Sample format > non [sic] available". To automatically convert the sample format, use "plughw:1". HTH Clemens