how to make totem use a different alsa device

["Bruno Schneider" <boschneider gmail com>]

Hi all,

When working on the computer, I like to leave some background music
like many people. The problem is that music files tend to overcome
sound warnings and sinals from other apps. By default, alsa mixes them
all with the same volume, so I create a special sound device from
background music, with a separate volume control, so that sound
signals played on the default PCM device are loud, when compared to
the music.

I used to play music with XMMS, which lets you choose which audio
device to use, and it used to work fine. However, Debian is leaving
XMMS behind and I'm trying to use totem in its place.

The problem is that I can't find a way to make totem use my special
alsa device. Is it possible?

For reference on creating a separate alsa device for background music, see:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=ae397f1b0702080503u67eacbabq25c1d57d574b742c%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=alsa-user

-- 
Bruno Schneider
http://www.dcc.ufla.br/~bruno/