Make /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf changes survive the update

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Hello everyone, how are you? I created this topic because I am looking for how to persist modifications made to the /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf file.
Indeed I modify:

# show all name hints also for definitions without hint {} section
defaults.namehint.showall off
# show just basic name hints
defaults.namehint.basic on
# show extended name hints
defaults.namehint.extended off

to

# show all name hints also for definitions without hint {} section
defaults.namehint.showall on
# show just basic name hints
defaults.namehint.basic on
# show extended name hints
defaults.namehint.extended on

The purpose of this manipulation is to activate/make available under DeadBeef and VLC (among others) the Alsa audio output: Direct hardware device without any conversions, to use it with my DAC.

The problem being, regularly after an update I have to re-modify these lines, nothing complicated, but that leads me to believe that this is not the standard procedure to achieve the expected result and that the modification of a other file that I don’t know about is the proper thing to do.

If anyone has an idea or knows what I’m doing wrong, please enlighten me.

In French

Bonjour tout le monde, comment allez-vous ? Je créé ce sujet car je cherche comment faire persister des modifications apportés au fichier /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf .

En effet je modifie :

# show all name hints also for definitions without hint {} section
defaults.namehint.showall off
# show just basic name hints
defaults.namehint.basic on
# show extended name hints
defaults.namehint.extended off

Ă 

# show all name hints also for definitions without hint {} section
defaults.namehint.showall on
# show just basic name hints
defaults.namehint.basic on
# show extended name hints
defaults.namehint.extended on

Le but de cette manipulation est d’activer/rendre disponible sous DeadBeef et VLC (entre autre) la sortie audio Alsa : Direct hardware device without any conversions , pour l’utiliser avec mon DAC.

Le problème étant ,régulièrement après une mise à jour je dois re-modifier ces lignes, rien de compliqué, mais ça qui me pousse à croire que ce n’est pas la procédure standard pour parvenir au résultat escompté et que la modification d’un autre fichier dont je n’ai pas connaissance est la chose propre à faire.

Si quelqu’un à une idée ou, sais ce que je fait mal, je en vous prie, éclairez moi de votre lanterne.

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… you can override the behavior in your own configuration file, preferably the global one (/etc/asound.conf ).

– Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - ArchWiki

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You can’t. /usr isn’t meant to be edited by hand. You probably need to put the edited file somewhere in /etc.

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Hello,

You can use ~/.asoundrc

and add to it just you required changes …

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So if I understand correctly, I have to create a .asoundrc file in my /home/user/
in this file can I put only the lines that matter to me or I have to copy all the contents of file /user/share/alsa/alsa.conf?

I manage but there it is quite massive and complicated as a configuration, already that I spent an infinite time to find this output which was available and which I used when I was under Mint (and Debian derivative), there if I have to make myself a configuration file from scratch, it’s on another level.

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Either way … You showed us 3 lines and two are modified, so i supposed that is all you need, but if is not so, then there is one alternative remaining, right?

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Yes! thank you very much for the help (and to the others too), creating this famous .asoundrc file in my /home with the two modified lines in it works perfectly! Finally, it’s done properly.

Thanks again to you and the others for helping me and teaching me things.

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