RPi3 Audio Output

I was about to start a new thread, but then I saw this one…

I’m trying similarly to output audio from my Pi3 box, but I’m trying to use a USB sound card. I had this working before I encountered some unrelated issues and started over with a fresh install.

Incidentally, I have Shairport Sync running successfully on the same RPI3, but that software has its own output configuration allowing me to set the output to the USB card; I just have not been successful making this work on a system level, and by extension work for OpenHab.

I’ve found about 20 different examples and tutorials for setting the default audio output but they are all different and many reference config files I don’t have installed. I’m looking for instructions that specifically refer to an updated Raspberry Jessie, installed as openHabian. I’m running openHabian 1.0 with openHAB 2.0.0~20161224034628 (Build #672) on a Raspberry Pi 3 rev 1.2.

I’d very much appreciate some help or to be pointed to an up to date tutorial.