

Now, as I read through ALSA related articles, I learnt about devices and then used -L to view the available devices as follows: aplay -L

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****Īs we can see, my external soundcard M-Audio is listed as an ALSA card here, which means it is being detected properly. **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****Ĭard 0: Intel, device 0: AD1984A Analog Ĭard 0: Intel, device 2: AD1984A Alt Analog Ĭard 1: Eight, device 0: USB Audio The following is the output of the same: aplay -l So, I used ALSA commands to see the available audio interfaces. Now, I'm no longer using Windows 7 as I have migrated to Ubuntu 16.04.

In Windows 7, I used to use pymedia, a python library, to list the available interfaces as well as use them for playing and recording audio.
