If your ~/.asoundrc were in fact ignored, you wouldn't receive that
error at all. You've neglected to completely specify a valid stanza for
the type hw; you need to fill out the slave section, too, at the very
least. Please see the alsa-lib documentation (or check
/usr/share/alsa/cards/* for a st
** Attachment added: "AlsaDevices.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/52178409/AlsaDevices.txt
** Attachment added: "AplayDevices.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/52178410/AplayDevices.txt
** Attachment added: "ArecordDevices.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/52178411/ArecordDevices.t