asound.conf settings ignored

[Goyt]

I have a /etc/asound.conf with some settings to limit sample rate to 44.1khz and format to 16 bit for my vintage external dac, this works in different audio players like plexamp but it is ignored by tidal-connect-docker. It might be an unusual usage case but is there any way to get tidal connect to follow the asound settings or effectively do the same thing?

/etc/asound.conf

pcm.!default {
 type plug
 slave {
 pcm "hw:CARD=sndallodigione,DEV=0"
 rate 44100
 format S16_LE
 }
}