diff --git a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/package.mk b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/package.mk
index c64803faebd..f82695b7db4 100644
--- a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/package.mk
+++ b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/package.mk
@@ -26,20 +26,8 @@ post_configure_target() {
 }
 
 post_makeinstall_target() {
-  rm -rf ${INSTALL}/lib ${INSTALL}/var
-  rm -rf ${INSTALL}/usr/share/alsa/speaker-test
-  rm -rf ${INSTALL}/usr/share/sounds
-  rm -rf ${INSTALL}/usr/lib/systemd/system
-
-# remove default udev rule to restore mixer configs, we install our own.
-# so we avoid resetting our soundconfig
-  rm -rf ${INSTALL}/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-alsa-restore.rules
-
   mkdir -p ${INSTALL}/.noinstall
-  for i in aconnect alsamixer amidi aplaymidi arecord arecordmidi aseqdump aseqnet iecset; do
+  for i in aconnect amidi aplaymidi arecord arecordmidi aseqdump aseqnet; do
     mv ${INSTALL}/usr/bin/${i} ${INSTALL}/.noinstall
   done
-
-  mkdir -p ${INSTALL}/usr/lib/udev
-    cp ${PKG_DIR}/scripts/soundconfig ${INSTALL}/usr/lib/udev
 }
diff --git a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/scripts/soundconfig b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/scripts/soundconfig
deleted file mode 100755
index 8ce81b35b76..00000000000
--- a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/scripts/soundconfig
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,183 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
-# Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-# Copyright (C) 2018-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
-
-# setup alsa (especially the mixer config)
-
-mixer() {
-  parm=${4:-on}
-  amixer -c "$1" sset "$2" "$3" $parm >/dev/null 2>&1
-  amixer -c "$1" sset "$2" $parm >/dev/null 2>&1
-}
-
-(
-. /etc/profile
-
-progress "Setting up sound card"
-
-if [ -f $HOME/.config/sound.conf ]; then
-
-  alsactl restore -f $HOME/.config/sound.conf
-
-else
-
-# get card num
-  card=`echo $1 | sed 's/[^0-9]*//g'`
-
-# set common mixer params
-  mixer "$card" Master 0db
-  mixer "$card" Front 100%
-  mixer "$card" PCM 0db
-  mixer "$card" Synth 100%
-
-# mute CD, since using digital audio instead
-  mixer "$card" CD 0% mute
-
-# Only unmute Line and Aux if they are possibly used.
-#  mixer "$card" Line 100%
-#  mixer "$card" Aux 100%
-
-# mute mic
-  mixer "$card" Mic 0% mute
-
-# ESS 1969 chipset has 2 PCM channels
-  mixer "$card" PCM,1 100%
-
-# Trident/YMFPCI/emu10k1
-  mixer "$card" Wave 100%
-  mixer "$card" Music 100%
-  mixer "$card" AC97 100%
-  mixer "$card" Surround 90%
-  mixer "$card" 'Surround Digital' 90%
-  mixer "$card" 'Wave Surround' 90%
-  mixer "$card" 'Duplicate Front' 90%
-  mixer "$card" 'Sigmatel 4-Speaker Stereo' 90%
-
-# CS4237B chipset:
-  mixer "$card" 'Master Digital' 100%
-
-# DRC
-  mixer "$card" 'Dynamic Range Compression' 90%
-
-# Envy24 chips with analog outs
-  mixer "$card" DAC 100%
-  mixer "$card" DAC,0 100%
-  mixer "$card" DAC,1 100%
-
-# some notebooks use headphone instead of master
-  mixer "$card" Headphone 100%
-  mixer "$card" Speaker 100%
-  mixer "$card" 'Internal Speaker' 0% mute
-  mixer "$card" Playback 100%
-  mixer "$card" Headphone 100%
-  mixer "$card" Speaker 100%
-  mixer "$card" Center 100%
-  mixer "$card" LFE 100%
-  mixer "$card" Center/LFE 100%
-
-# Intel P4P800-MX  (Ubuntu bug #5813)
-  mixer "$card" 'Master Playback Switch' on
-
-# set digital output mixer params
-  mixer "$card" 'IEC958' 100% on
-  mixer "$card" 'IEC958 Output' 100%
-  mixer "$card" 'IEC958 Coaxial' 100%
-  mixer "$card" 'IEC958 LiveDrive' 100%
-  mixer "$card" 'IEC958 Optical Raw' 100%
-  mixer "$card" 'SPDIF Out' 100%
-  mixer "$card" 'SPDIF Front' 100%
-  mixer "$card" 'SPDIF Rear' 100%
-  mixer "$card" 'SPDIF Center/LFE' 100%
-  mixer "$card" 'Master Digital' 100%
-
-  mixer "$card" 'Analog Front' 100%
-  mixer "$card" 'Analog Rear' 100%
-  mixer "$card" 'Analog Center/LFE' 100%
-
-# ASRock ION 330 (and perhaps others) has 2 IEC958 channels
-  mixer "$card" IEC958,0 on
-  mixer "$card" IEC958,1 on
-
-# some ION2 has much more IEC958 channels ...
-  mixer "$card" IEC958,2 on
-  mixer "$card" IEC958,3 on
-
-# ASRock ION 330 has Master Front set to 0
-  mixer "$card" 'Master Front' 100%
-
-# Shuttle XS35GT needs this too
-  mixer "$card" 'Master',0 100% on
-
-# and this for various Fusion devices like Zotac ZBOX
-  mixer "$card" 'Front',0 100% on
-
-# NVidia CK804 sound devices
-  mixer "$card" 'IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA' 100%
-
-# Allwinner H3 Analog
-  mixer "$card" 'Line Out' 0db on
-
-# Allwinner A20 Analog
-  mixer "$card" 'Power Amplifier' 0db
-  mixer "$card" 'Power Amplifier DAC' on
-  mixer "$card" 'Power Amplifier Mute' on
-
-# Allwinner A64 Analog
-  mixer "$card" Headphone 0db on
-  mixer "$card" 'AIF1 Slot 0 Digital DAC' on
-
-# Amlogic audio devices
-  case $(dtsoc) in
-    amlogic,g12*|amlogic,sm1)
-      # AXG HDMI // Logic assumes TDMOUT_A is not present in device-tree when TDMOUT_B is used
-      TDMOUT=$(awk '/TDMOUT/ && $2=="OUT" {print substr($1,length($1),1)}' /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/sound/audio-routing | sort | head -n 1)
-      if [ "${TDMOUT}" = "A" ]; then
-        mixer "$card" 'FRDDR_A SINK 1 SEL' 'OUT 0'
-        mixer "$card" 'FRDDR_A SRC 1 EN' on
-        mixer "$card" 'TDMOUT_A SRC SEL' 'IN 0'
-        mixer "$card" 'TOHDMITX' on
-        mixer "$card" 'TOHDMITX I2S SRC' 'I2S A'
-      elif [ "${TDMOUT}" = "B" ]; then
-        mixer "$card" 'FRDDR_A SINK 1 SEL' 'OUT 1'
-        mixer "$card" 'FRDDR_A SRC 1 EN' on
-        mixer "$card" 'TDMOUT_B SRC SEL' 'IN 0'
-        mixer "$card" 'TOHDMITX' on
-        mixer "$card" 'TOHDMITX I2S SRC' 'I2S B'
-      fi
-      # AXG S/PDIF
-      SPDIFOUT=$(awk '/SPDIF/' /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/sound/audio-routing | sort | head -n 1)
-      if [ -n "${SPDIFOUT}" ]; then
-        mixer "$card" 'FRDDR_B SINK 1 SEL' 'OUT 3'
-        mixer "$card" 'FRDDR_B SRC 1 EN' on
-        mixer "$card" 'SPDIFOUT SRC SEL' 'IN 1'
-        mixer "$card" 'SPDIFOUT Playback' on
-      fi
-      # AXG Headphone Jack
-      ACODEC=$(awk '/ACODEC/' /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/sound/audio-routing | sort | head -n 1)
-      if [ -n "${ACODEC}" ]; then
-        mixer "$card" 'TOACODEC OUT EN' on
-        mixer "$card" 'TOACODEC SRC' 'I2S ${TDMOUT}'
-        mixer "$card" 'ACODEC Playback Switch' on
-        mixer "$card" 'ACODEC Playback Channel Mode' Stereo
-      fi
-      ;;
-    amlogic,meson-gx*)
-      # AIU HDMI and S/PDIF
-      mixer "$card" 'AIU HDMI CTRL SRC' 'I2S'
-      mixer "$card" 'AIU SPDIF SRC SEL' 'SPDIF'
-      # AIU ACODEC headphone jack
-      mixer "$card" 'ACODEC' 80% on
-      mixer "$card" 'AIU ACODEC SRC' 'I2S'
-      mixer "$card" 'AIU ACODEC OUT EN' on
-      ;;
-  esac
-
-# ES8316 headphone jack
-  mixer "$card" 'Right Headphone Mixer Right DAC' on
-  mixer "$card" 'Left Headphone Mixer Left DAC' on
-fi
-
-exit 0
-)&
diff --git a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/tmpfiles.d/alsa-utils.conf b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/tmpfiles.d/alsa-utils.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bf441c929b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/tmpfiles.d/alsa-utils.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+d    /storage/.cache/alsa  0755 root root - -
+L    /var/lib/alsa/        -    -    -    - /storage/.cache/alsa
diff --git a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/udev.d/90-alsa-restore.rules b/packages/audio/alsa-utils/udev.d/90-alsa-restore.rules
deleted file mode 100644
index 3fa0a600bf4..00000000000
--- a/packages/audio/alsa-utils/udev.d/90-alsa-restore.rules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
-# Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-
-# When a sound device is detected, restore the volume settings
-  KERNEL=="controlC[0-9]*",  NAME="snd/%k", ACTION=="add", RUN+="soundconfig %k"