If you want to keep using alsa with applications that otherwise only work with pulseaudio, you can try apulse[1]. When I used to use it, it worked nicely, but

If you want to keep using alsa with applications that otherwise only work with pulseaudio, you can try apulse[1]. When I used to use it, it worked nicely, but I started using pulseaudio around the time of its most recent release, when I got frustrated by having to tweak asoundrc to use a USB microphone, and being unable to figure out how to bump up its sample rate. [1]: https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse