Sound Card changes after every reboot

Question

Alright, I've had this little issue since I installed Arch on one of my computers. After every reboot, the sound card changes and I have to manually edit my .asoundrc to get sound. It's not a huge deal but it is very annoying. How do I prevent my system from switching my sound card?
This the output from aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: STX [Xonar STX], device 0: Multichannel [Multichannel]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: STX [Xonar STX], device 1: Digital [Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
I'm trying to keep the Xonar STX as the default card.

Answer 1

thatnewyorker wrote:
skunktrader wrote:
On my machine I have the following in /etc/asound.conf
pcm.!default {
type hw
card XFi
ctl.!default {
type hw
card XFi
Yeah that didn't work. I get a message about .asoundrc being old or corrupted so Alsamixer basically ignores it.
I assume you changed the 'XFi' (my preferred sound card) to 'STX'