The PyMedia example player seems to let you choose the card:

http://pymedia.org/tut/src/aplayer.py.html

See the call to 'sound.getODevices()'
http://pymedia.org/docs/pymedia.audio.sound.html#-getODevices

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Bob Blick <bobblick@ftml.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to do a simple audio playback with Python through an
> alternate sound card (generic usb audio device) but it seems most of the
> easy libraries (PyMedia, PyGame, PyAudio) for playing sound in Python
> don't have that capability, they all play through the default audio
> device.
>
> This is for Linux and doesn't need to be portable, but it should be
> simple because I'm not too smart where Python or Linux is involved. I'm
> doing this project to improve my Python chops and make a Halloween type
> of sound and light effect display at home. I already have a Linux box
> running all the time near it so that's why I'm doing it this way.
>
> I did find this method but from my untrained eye it looks like it
> bypasses the sound server. But maybe that's OK in this case, nothing
> else will be accessing the usb audio device and system sounds will play
> through the default device as normal:
>
> http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/37418-how-play-sound-python
>
> Any comments would be welcome though, since I'm clueless :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bob
>
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