Sure, I don't use the plughw syntax for mine but I assume that it is the same or equivalent as if I did ALSA:spdif? As long as it represents the majority of common devices but is dynamically generated from the system I would think that would give the best results. Certainly enumerating all the subdevices isn't necessary.
No, roughly speaking if you have three sound cards in the system then they are called: hw:0, hw:1, hw:2. However, you can use your asoundrc file to rename them to more userfriendly names. THere is also a plugin called "plughw" which helps out when the physical cards can't handle certain formats, but otherwise sits there idly. For example my RME card only support 32bit input. I need plughw to allow myth to send 16 bit data. Basically if in doubt you should use plughw to just act as a go between
Then for every real physical device you get a whole bunch of other subdevices like spdif, multichannel surround, etc. There are quite a few if you enumerate them!
I agree though that spdif is perhaps one of the more common devices we might want to offer.
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