Setting up audio in Archlinux aka UGH

So I got a working arch install with i3 as the window manager

I installed pulseaudio, but for the love of me cant get it to work.

What Ive tried:

setting the profile of my card to something else
changing the config file

nothing.

runing alsamixer seems to make me think that its using the wrong card as default (I have a nividia gpu with "sound" and a pair of USB studio monitors that im trying to use)

I'm not the best when it comes to ALSA and pulse configuration, but I can try. Post the output of aplay -l and a screenshot of alsamixer.

I managed to get it working with the extremely cheating way of installing gnome, running it, setting everything up, then switching back to i3.

Am I a bad person?

Not at all! Whatever works for you, works for me ;)

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At least I can now watch those videos someone posted on configuring i3 :D

Yep, yep. Have fun :)

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