Martin Kuball wrote: > I have a Griffin iMic USB audio device. It works well using aplay and > xmms with the usb device I configured in my asoundrc. > > But I cannot get ogg123 to work with this. E.g. > > ogg123 -d alsa09 -o dev:usb tr30.ogg > > ALSA snd_pcm_hw_params_set_format error: the argument is invalid You configured your "usb" device so that it doesn't do any automatic sample format conversion. Add a "plug" plugin, like this: pcm.usb { type plug slave.pcm { type hw card 42 # or whatever the card number is ... device 0 } } HTH Clemens