Navigation sounds in xbmc didn’t work for me in linux when using hdmi as my default audio device. This is quick and easy to fix. Simply add the following to /etc/asound.conf
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave {
pcm "hdmi"
}
}
Save the file and reboot. You should now have navigation sounds working over hdmi in xbmc.
Great tip – thanks! I modified that to my output device (iec958) and although it didn’t fix navigation sounds, i do have other sound working (finally) that wasn’t working before like audio previews in nautilus.