How can I know whether a sound card is present on my system or not?

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome classic. Obviously playing the music shows there is a sound card present. But I've read that there might be multiple sound cards present on a single system.

How can I know how many sound cards are present on my system? Also, how can I know which all they are?


To detect your soundcard, use sudo aplay -l from the Terminal.

Courtesy:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting


Type in a terminal:

 hwinfo | grep sound.card_id