diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1706bf265..e23118fb8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ ver 0.24 (not yet released)
 * tags
   - new tags "TitleSort", "Mood"
 * output
+  - alsa: require alsa-lib 1.1 or later
   - pipewire: fix corruption bug due to missing lock
   - pipewire: map tags "Date" and "Comment"
 * switch to C++20
diff --git a/src/lib/alsa/Format.hxx b/src/lib/alsa/Format.hxx
index 2c987eca3..d91e8b1c1 100644
--- a/src/lib/alsa/Format.hxx
+++ b/src/lib/alsa/Format.hxx
@@ -1,27 +1,15 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 // Copyright The Music Player Daemon Project
 
-#ifndef MPD_ALSA_FORMAT_HXX
-#define MPD_ALSA_FORMAT_HXX
+#pragma once
 
 #include "pcm/SampleFormat.hxx"
 #include "util/Compiler.h"
-#include "config.h"
 
 #include <alsa/asoundlib.h>
 
 #include <cassert>
 
-#if SND_LIB_VERSION >= 0x1001c
-/* alsa-lib supports DSD since version 1.0.27.1 */
-#define HAVE_ALSA_DSD
-#endif
-
-#if SND_LIB_VERSION >= 0x1001d
-/* alsa-lib supports DSD_U32 since version 1.0.29 */
-#define HAVE_ALSA_DSD_U32
-#endif
-
 /**
  * Convert MPD's #SampleFormat enum to libasound's snd_pcm_format_t
  * enum.  Returns SND_PCM_FORMAT_UNKNOWN if there is no according ALSA
@@ -36,11 +24,7 @@ ToAlsaPcmFormat(SampleFormat sample_format) noexcept
 		return SND_PCM_FORMAT_UNKNOWN;
 
 	case SampleFormat::DSD:
-#ifdef HAVE_ALSA_DSD
 		return SND_PCM_FORMAT_DSD_U8;
-#else
-		return SND_PCM_FORMAT_UNKNOWN;
-#endif
 
 	case SampleFormat::S8:
 		return SND_PCM_FORMAT_S8;
@@ -85,7 +69,6 @@ ByteSwapAlsaPcmFormat(snd_pcm_format_t fmt) noexcept
 
 	case SND_PCM_FORMAT_S32_BE: return SND_PCM_FORMAT_S32_LE;
 
-#ifdef HAVE_ALSA_DSD_U32
 	case SND_PCM_FORMAT_DSD_U16_LE:
 		return SND_PCM_FORMAT_DSD_U16_BE;
 
@@ -97,7 +80,6 @@ ByteSwapAlsaPcmFormat(snd_pcm_format_t fmt) noexcept
 
 	case SND_PCM_FORMAT_DSD_U32_BE:
 		return SND_PCM_FORMAT_DSD_U32_LE;
-#endif
 
 	default: return SND_PCM_FORMAT_UNKNOWN;
 	}
@@ -121,5 +103,3 @@ PackAlsaPcmFormat(snd_pcm_format_t fmt) noexcept
 		return SND_PCM_FORMAT_UNKNOWN;
 	}
 }
-
-#endif
diff --git a/src/lib/alsa/HwSetup.cxx b/src/lib/alsa/HwSetup.cxx
index e1488522c..6b478ccf7 100644
--- a/src/lib/alsa/HwSetup.cxx
+++ b/src/lib/alsa/HwSetup.cxx
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ TryFormatDsd(snd_pcm_t *pcm, snd_pcm_hw_params_t *hwparams,
 {
 	int err = TryFormatOrByteSwap(pcm, hwparams, fmt, params);
 
-#if defined(ENABLE_DSD) && defined(HAVE_ALSA_DSD_U32)
+#ifdef ENABLE_DSD
 	if (err == -EINVAL && fmt == SND_PCM_FORMAT_DSD_U8) {
 		/* attempt to switch to DSD_U32 */
 		fmt = IsLittleEndian()
diff --git a/src/lib/alsa/meson.build b/src/lib/alsa/meson.build
index 7e854c77a..58a77091c 100644
--- a/src/lib/alsa/meson.build
+++ b/src/lib/alsa/meson.build
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ if not is_linux
   subdir_done()
 endif
 
-libasound_dep = dependency('alsa', version: '>= 0.9.0', required: get_option('alsa'))
+libasound_dep = dependency('alsa', version: '>= 1.1', required: get_option('alsa'))
 if not libasound_dep.found()
   alsa_dep = dependency('', required: false)
   subdir_done()