Intro, and, first question

[Zachary Kline]

As an alternative, couldn’t you set up a .asoundrc file to specify the default recording device? I don’t know much about the syntax for such things, but in theory that would avoid having to do so every time.
I know the syntax is documented somewhere, probably on the Alsa web site.
> On Nov 21, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:
> 
> On the rpi2, if you use arecord without specifying an input device, it
> tries to record through the rpi2's sound card, which is of course not
> possible, and results in the error message you posted. You need to
> specifically give arecord the device to use for capturing from.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 04:31:32PM +0200, Jacob Kruger wrote:
>> Will try that first command, but, if run arecord -l, it does show
>> the USB adapter as an input device.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
> 
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