Error: Module 'alsa' device open failed

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Configuration:

  • PC with two sound cards
  • Fedora 37 live
  • using default liveuser user and GNOME desktop

I list all the sound devices with aplay --list-pcms

null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
sysdefault
    Default Audio Device
iec958
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
pipewire
    PipeWire Sound Server
default
    Default ALSA Output (currently PipeWire Media Server)
sysdefault:CARD=CA0106
    CA0106, CA0106
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=CA0106,DEV=0
    CA0106, CA0106
    Front output / input
[list truncated]

I’ve truncated the list because is long and not needed.

So, I want to use the CA0106 device so I launch mpg123 -v -a sysdefault:CARD=CA0106 song.mp3

High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
        version 1.31.3; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
        free software (LGPL) without any warranty but with best wishes
Decoder: x86-64 (SSE)
Trying output module: alsa, device: sysdefault:CARD=CA0106
[src/libout123/modules/alsa.c:open_alsa():181] error: cannot open device sysdefault:CARD=CA0106
[src/libout123/libout123.c:check_output_module():947] error: Module 'alsa' device open failed.
[src/libout123/libout123.c:out123_open():439] error: Found no driver out of [alsa] working with device sysdefault:CARD=CA0106.
main: [src/mpg123.c:check_fatal_output():334] error: out123 error 3: failure loading driver module

I really don’t know where to look to fix this. Any idea?

Thanks.