diff --git a/inxi b/inxi
index 470ec34..7501d37 100755
--- a/inxi
+++ b/inxi
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 ########################################################################
 ####  Script Name: inxi
-####  version: 0.5.27
+####  version: 0.5.28
 ####  Date: November 13 2008
 ########################################################################
 ####  inxi is a fork of infobash 3.02, the original bash sys info script by locsmif
@@ -1018,7 +1018,12 @@ get_audio_data()
 	if [[ -e /proc/asound/version ]];then
 		A_AUDIO_DATA[$alsa_index]=$( gawk '{
 			{ IGNORECASE=1 }
-			gsub( "Driver ","",$0 )
+			# some alsa strings have the build date in (...)
+			# also remove trailing .
+			gsub( "Driver | [(].*[)]|\.$","",$0 )
+			gsub(/,/, " ", $0)
+			gsub(/^ +| +$/, "", $0)
+			gsub(/ [ \t]+/, " ", $0)
 			if ( $0 != "" ){
 				print $0 ",alsa"
 			}
@@ -1899,7 +1904,6 @@ print_short_data()
 
 #### LINE ITEM PRINT FUNCTIONS
 
-# print sound card data
 # print sound card data
 print_audio_data()
 {
@@ -1913,7 +1917,8 @@ print_audio_data()
 	IFS="$ORIGINAL_IFS"
 
 	if [[ -n ${A_AUDIO_DATA[@]} ]];then
-		if [[ ${#A_AUDIO_DATA[@]} -le 1 ]];then
+		# slightly complicated because 2nd array item could be the alsa data
+		if [[ ${#A_AUDIO_DATA[@]} -le 1 ]] || [[ ${#A_AUDIO_DATA[@]} -eq 2 && -n $( grep ',alsa' <<< ${A_AUDIO_DATA[@]} ) ]];then
 			card_one='Card '
 		fi
 
@@ -1937,7 +1942,7 @@ print_audio_data()
 			if [[ ${a_audio_working[1]} != 'alsa' ]];then
 				audio_data="${C1}Card-$(( $i + 1 )) ${C2}${a_audio_working[0]}$port_data"
 			else
-				audio_data="${C1}Sound Driver: ${C2}${a_audio_working[0]}"
+				audio_data="${C1}Sound System: ${C2}${a_audio_working[0]}"
 			fi
 			audio_data=$( create_print_line " " "$audio_data" )
 			print_screen_output "$audio_data"
@@ -1945,7 +1950,6 @@ print_audio_data()
 	fi
 }
 
-
 print_cpu_data()
 {
 	local cpu_data='' i='' cpu_clock_speed='' cpu_multi_clock_data=''