ALSA, Good Weather

Does anyone know anything about ALSA device name and plugs? The new Xine Config dialog is kind of full thanks to the fact that xine has a different configuration for sound devices depending on how many channels are being played.

For instance, by default the mono device for xine-lib is simply default and 6-channel sound is plug:surround51:0

Would there by some way to let the user specify which device they want to use (that's the goal, let users who have two sound cards specify which they want) and have that apply to all the channel settings? I don't think users have a need to change the plug settings, so it seems like it should be possible. I've looked at the xine-lib source code, it appears the device is being sent directly to the ALSA lib more or less.

And now I refer you to Konversation's /weather script:
Current Weather for Columbia, Columbia Regional Airport : Clear skies, Temperature: 71.1°F, Pressure: 30.15" Hg, Wind: 10 MPH N

To translate, its great weather. Missouri's weather could be described as polarized: it can get really cold in winter and really hot in the summer. The Intermediate Value Theorem means its occasionally nice. Today is one of those days. Yesterday a cold front brought in some needed rain and today we're somehow having the cold front without the rain. Nice especially since we've just had a week or so of body temperature weather (to express it in a metric/imperial-neutral fashion).

So when I went to desposit my check at the bank I proceded to go down a path to a creek and watch fishs for about 15 minutes. Then I skipped a few rocks, remembered I'm not any good at that, and just starting throwing large rocks.