PS: I forgot to mention, that you temporarily get English output, if you run commands with prefixed LOCAL=C.
IOW instead of e.g. running aplay -l running LANG=C aplay -l gives English output. It also works vice versa, if your locale should be English, as mine, you temporarily could get German output: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ aplay -l | head -2 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: HDSPMx579bcc [RME AIO_579bcc], device 0: RME AIO [RME AIO] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ LANG=de_DE.utf8 aplay -l | head -2 **** Liste der Hardware-Geräte (PLAYBACK) **** Karte 0: HDSPMx579bcc [RME AIO_579bcc], Gerät 0: RME AIO [RME AIO] PPS: I've got no idea why you get hw:1, if no hw:0 is displayed and while hw:0 is reserved for an USB device. This requires troubleshooting. If the second device should be connected, I would expect to see both devices. Since I've got seldom time to help and there seems to be not much traffic on this list, consider to send a request to https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users