Alsa HDMI Music Player

[wu-stix]

I have just got my music sound coming out through hdmi finally, but the only application I can seem to use to play my music is movieplayer which really sucks. I have to go open and then find the file blah blah blah... Anyway I am looking for an itunes like player that supports the alsa hdmi output. I tried amarok but it doesn't have an hdmi output option just alsa. I am using ubuntu 8.04 with gnome if that matters.

[markbuntu]

You can set up alsa to default to your hdmi card.
I use

asoundconf-gtk

for that. It is a tiny app that lives in System/Preferences/ as Default Sound Card. And you can change the default alsa sound card easily. It is in the repos.

[wu-stix]

Could you please explain how to change the default sound card or post a link. Thanks.

[markbuntu]

All you have to do is install

asoundconf-gtk

with Synaptic and then you will have a Default Sound Card application listed in System/Preferences which will list your sound cards and let you choose the one you want to use.