ALSA default device - changing it

So...
I have three ways to output audio from my system.
- Laptop speakers / pluggable analog device (both work as same device, if something is plugged in, hardware automatically turns off the speakers, as in most laptops)
- HDMI audio
- Bluetooth audio
I'd like to have a simple (K.I.S.S.) way to
a) change the output source or
b) set the prority (order) and let the system automatically choose which output to use.
In case of B if no bluetooth audio device is found then try HDMI if that fails too then use speakers/analog output.
I'm not sure if it's even possible to recognize if HDMI is plugged or not...
In case of A some kind of control panel / applet would be nice.

Cdh wrote:
Have you tried asoundconf?
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23382
asoundconf list
asoundconf set-default-card <one from the list>
It changes the ~/.asoundrc to include ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf and then sets the default card in ~/.asoundrc.asoundconf
But as this is plain alsa it will only affect newly started programs and maybe newly started audio output actions.
Thanks. I think that is a good solution anyways. I think I'll create menu items or something to have it "clickable".
Cdh wrote:When using pulseaudio you could use pavucontrol to change output streams from one device to the other on the fly.
My experiences with Pulseaudio are far from K.I.S.S..

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- That card is the regular 6 3.5mm jack soundcard.
- I have a mic plugged into the red microphone plug
- I open up Audacity and go to preferences, there are two microphone plugs, 'hw:0,0' and 'hw:0,2'
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from the alsa archwiki:
"Setting the default Microphone/Capture Device
Some applications (Pidgin, Adobe Flash) do not provide an option to change the capture device. It becomes an issue if your microphone is on a separate device (i.e. USB webcam or microphone) than your internal sound card. To change only the default capture device, leaving the default playback device as is, you can modify your ~/.asoundrc file to include the following:
pcm.usb
type hw
card U0x46d0x81d
pcm.!default
type asym
playback.pcm
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
capture.pcm
type plug
slave.pcm "usb"
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EDIT: maybe i didn't read your post well enough.. im just guessing here but maybe you can replace card U0x46d0x81d with
device name_of_device..
maybe..
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Setting the default ALSA Sound Device, wiki methods not working?

Hi!
I want to set my default audio device different from the current one, namely different from my default laptop analog output.
My laptop has two outputs, analog and HDMI, however, IF it is connected I want my default audio output to be my USB Dac.
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alternatively, it is also okay for the default to be set at boot time, as i shutdown my laptop when changing setups.
i tried the method with an alsa-base.conf file in /etc/modprobe.d/ and also the /etc/asound.conf file.
with the alsa-base.conf file, I get error msgs when executing even aplay -l, while the asound.conf method gives me:
speaker-test 1.0.27.2
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1667:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
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my asound.conf:
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm {
@func getenv
vars [ ALSAPCM ]
default "hw:0x262a:0x10e1"
has anybody an idea on how to possibly fix this?
thanks a lot !

Thanks for the link you posted.
Unfortunately, i don't really get the advice posted there...
I figured out one thing by myself though, in my asound config the name of my DAC was wrong, I missed an 'U' in the front.
Still, I am not sure why i even have to do any config at all, really. Or maybe my expected behaviour is not the default.
I think of it like that: always use my laptop output as default, however: IF i plug in another audio device, it's got to have a reason why i plugged it, so change the default to the newly plugged in device.
Is there a way to do that?
ps. eg now it got somehow f'd up and i have TWO default devices. no idea how it did that/how that's possible.
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null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
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HDA Intel PCH, CX20590 Analog
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surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, CX20590 Analog
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HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0
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hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=1
HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 1
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SA9023 USB Audio, USB Audio
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