[Alsa-user] Pulseaudio problem diagnosis

[Eric M. H. <ho...@om...>]

I want to cause a random alsa application to throw away all sound
output.  I'm suspecting that something about how the program is
communicating with pulseaudio is causing it to act weird and I want to
test this.

To this end I put this in my ~/.asoundrc file:

pcm.!default {
    type null
}
ctl.!default {
    type null
}

Why doesn't that work?

Thanks,
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