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I'm trying to get sound out of the HDMI and the headphone jack on Linux Mint 14 but I cannot get it to work.
When I enter this command "aplay -D xbmc /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" I get sound in both devices, my TV and headphones but when i configure XMBC and play a song I get the message "Failed to initialize audio device. Check your audiosettings" but the menu sounds can be heard in the TV, any ideas of what is wrong? My configuration is:
XMBC 11.0
Audio Output: Analog
Speaker Configuration: 2.0
Audio output device: Custom
Custom audio device: alsa:xmbc (I tried with "plug:xmbc" and "plug:both" too)

My ~/.xmbc/.asoundrc is this

Code:
pcm.!default {

type plug

slave {

pcm "both"

}

}

pcm.both {

type route

slave {

pcm multi

channels 6

}

ttable.0.0 1.0

ttable.1.1 1.0

ttable.0.2 1.0

ttable.1.3 1.0

ttable.0.4 1.0

ttable.1.5 1.0

}

pcm.multi {

type multi

slaves.a {

pcm "tv"

channels 2

}

slaves.b {

pcm "receiver"

channels 2

}

slaves.c {

pcm "analog"

channels 2

}

bindings.0.slave a

bindings.0.channel 0

bindings.1.slave a

bindings.1.channel 1

bindings.2.slave b

bindings.2.channel 0

bindings.3.slave b

bindings.3.channel 1

bindings.4.slave c

bindings.4.channel 0

bindings.5.slave c

bindings.5.channel 1

}

pcm.tv {

type hw

card 0

device 3

channels 2

}

pcm.receiver {

type hw

card 0

device 1

channels 2

}

pcm.analog {

type hw

card 0

device 0

channels 2

}

and aplay -L is this

Code:
null

    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

pulse

    PulseAudio Sound Server

analog

    Analog Output - Use analog outputs, converting samples, format, and rate as necessary.

mixed-analog

    Mixed Analog Output - Use analog outputs, converting samples, format, and rate as necessary. Allows mixing with system sounds.

digital

    Digital Output - Use digital outputs, converting samples, format, and rate as necessary.

mixed-digital

    Mixed Digital Output - Use digital outputs, converting samples, format, and rate as necessary. Allows mixing with system sounds.

dmix-analog

dmix-digital

xbmc

multi

default

    Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server

sysdefault:CARD=Intel

    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog

    Default Audio Device

front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0

    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog

    Front speakers

surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0

    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog

    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers

surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0

    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog

    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0

    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog

    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers

surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0

    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog

    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers

surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0

    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog

    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers

hdmi:CARD=Intel,DEV=0

    HDA Intel, HDMI 0

    HDMI Audio Output

dmix:CARD=Intel,DEV=0

    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog

    Direct sample mixing device

dmix:CARD=Intel,DEV=3

    HDA Intel, HDMI 0

    Direct sample mixing device

dsnoop:CARD=Intel,DEV=0

    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog

    Direct sample snooping device

dsnoop:CARD=Intel,DEV=3

    HDA Intel, HDMI 0

    Direct sample snooping device

hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0

    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog

    Direct hardware device without any conversions

hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=3

    HDA Intel, HDMI 0

    Direct hardware device without any conversions

plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0

    HDA Intel, STAC92xx Analog

    Hardware device with all software conversions

plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=3

    HDA Intel, HDMI 0

    Hardware device with all software conversions

Any help would be appreciated Smile

I am not great at following asound rules, but the device you ultimately want to use must be defined as !default (assuming you are using frodo).

I'm using v11.0 Eden, do you think that v12.0 will fix my problem?

Ohh, something interesting, the device "!default" is not showing on xmbc, I think that's a problem right?

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