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I ran aplay -l and it returns:

card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC1220 Analog [ALC1220 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC1220 Digital [ALC1220 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 11: HDMI 5 [HDMI 5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 12: HDMI 6 [HDMI 6]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Pro [Razer BlackShark V2 Pro], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Now I am looking at the card 2 Razer headset, but I actually don't know what the name is, "Pro" does not exist so idk what to put in the config. Thanks for any help

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  • Are you not using pulseaudio and do you want the headset to be used exclusively by/for spotifyd though?
    – Tom Yan
    Commented Jun 30, 2021 at 14:51
  • Well I cant figure out how to use pulseaudio, it just throws "unknown backend 'pulseaudio'", yeah I want to share my headset between spotifyd and netflix, games etc. I am really new to audio and spotifyd in linux
    – Collbrothers
    Commented Jun 30, 2021 at 15:44
  • Better get a build with pulseaudio support. Otherwise you need to mess with alsa configuration and dmix. If you insist, see if you can find a dmix item for the headset already in aplay -L (yes captial L)
    – Tom Yan
    Commented Jun 30, 2021 at 16:00
  • pastebin.com/Z6raz19U <- Which one would that be?
    – Collbrothers
    Commented Jun 30, 2021 at 16:07
  • You can try dmix:CARD=Pro, but it won't work very well / might not work at all. You'll might have to set a FORMAT explicitly and perhaps RATE (the options should be comma-separated), which depends on the capabilities of your headset and what you prefer. If you are lucky enough that what spotfiyd / any program outputs matches with the spec, it will work. But you probably need to use the plug plugin to "wrap" the whole thing for some stuff anyway. (I'm familiar with alsa conf'ing, neither do I want to go into that.)
    – Tom Yan
    Commented Jul 1, 2021 at 6:18

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I got "pulse" as one of the devices when I call aplay -L. Once I used "pulse" for both "device" and "control" in spotifyd.conf file I got sound through bluetooth headset!

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