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No Sound from USB-DAC

Postby Superted » 16 Jan 2015, 20:23

Hello I'm running a Raspberry Pi with RubeAudio.
I get no sound when playing from this setup.
The USB-Dac is a WaveIO one it is visible as playback device in the MPD-setup.
any toughts?
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Re: No Sound from USB-DAC

Postby ACX » 16 Jan 2015, 23:48

Have you enabled that in the MPD section?
Are you using hardware or software volume control?
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Re: No Sound from USB-DAC

Postby darpmalone » 23 Jan 2015, 21:19

I just discovered this RuneAudio player as well (I love it so far) but I'm having the same issue.

I'm using Raspberry Pi with a CM6631a based USB/S/PDIF converter... RaspberryPi Analog & HDMI Audio work fine but I get no sound from my DAC when I successfully switch to (USB2.0 High-Speed True HD Audio), regardless of volume control setting.

One thing that I just noticed is when I reboot the device with USB2.0 Audio...) selected, Volume control defaults to "disabled"

Any ideas?

Thanks.
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Re: No Sound from USB-DAC

Postby ACX » 23 Jan 2015, 23:37

Have you checked if the DAC is muted for some reason?
You can do that writing alsamixer in the command line, selecting your USB card from the list (after pressing F6) and see if the volume is muted. If it is, press M to unmute it.
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Re: No Sound from USB-DAC

Postby darpmalone » 24 Jan 2015, 18:32

ACX wrote:Have you checked if the DAC is muted for some reason?
You can do that writing alsamixer in the command line, selecting your USB card from the list (after pressing F6) and see if the volume is muted. If it is, press M to unmute it.


Thanks for your reply.

No. The DAC is not muted and all levels are up.
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Before I waste any more time on this, I'll rig a dedicated 5v DC to the CM6631a board to rule out low bus power as a possible issue.

Thanks again
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Re: No Sound from USB-DAC

Postby hondagx35 » 25 Jan 2015, 14:37

Hi ,

please post the output from:
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alsa -l


You can try to change the device number manually in the mpd.conf

audio_output {
....
type "alsa"
name "Output"
device "hw:1,1" << Default is set hw:1,0
dsd_usb "yes"
}
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Re: No Sound from USB-DAC

Postby darpmalone » 26 Jan 2015, 00:42

hondagx35 wrote:Hi ,

please post the output from:
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alsa -l


You can try to change the device number manually in the mpd.conf

audio_output {
....
type "alsa"
name "Output"
device "hw:1,1" << Default is set hw:1,0
dsd_usb "yes"
}



Hi hondagx35

Sorry, I'm new to Linux. I'm sitting at the [root@runeaudio ~]# prompt but I have no idea how to view view or display alsa -l. (nor to edit "mpd.conf"). Is this something that's simple enough to explain here?

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Re: No Sound from USB-DAC

Postby hondagx35 » 27 Jan 2015, 16:59

Hi darpmalone,

sorry i made a typo in my last post
please post the output from:
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alsa -l


should be
please post the output from:
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aplay -l


The output should look like this:
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[root@runeaudio ~]# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac], device 0: HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


Sorry, I'm new to Linux. I'm sitting at the [root@runeaudio ~]# prompt but I have no idea how to view view or display.....


You only have to type in the command "aplay -l" (without the quotes) and hit enter.

You can edit your mpd.conf with:
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 nano /etc/mpd.con
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Re: No Sound from USB-DAC

Postby darpmalone » 27 Jan 2015, 17:45

hondagx35 wrote:Hi darpmalone,

sorry i made a typo in my last post

Sorry, I'm new to Linux. I'm sitting at the [root@runeaudio ~]# prompt but I have no idea how to view view or display.....


You only have to type in the command "aplay -l" (without the quotes) and hit enter.

You can edit your mpd.conf with:
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 nano /etc/mpd.con


Thanks! I'll do that this evening

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Re: No Sound from USB-DAC

Postby lam » 14 Mar 2015, 19:51

hi
i've got the same issue : no sound from USB-DAC.
some informations :

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[root@runeaudio ~]# aplay -l                                                                                                               
***** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
  Subdevices: 7/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0



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###################################
# Auto generated mpd.conf file
# please DO NOT edit it manually!
# Use RuneUI MPD config section
###################################

zeroconf_enabled        "yes"
zeroconf_name   "RuneAudio"
bind_to_address "/run/mpd.sock"
bind_to_address         "any"
port    "6600"
max_connections         "20"
user    "mpd"
group   "audio"
db_file         "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db"
sticker_file    "/var/lib/mpd/sticker.sql"
pid_file        "/var/run/mpd/pid"
music_directory         "/mnt/MPD"
playlist_directory      "/var/lib/mpd/playlists"
follow_outside_symlinks         "yes"
follow_inside_symlinks  "yes"
auto_update     "no"
filesystem_charset      "UTF-8"
id3v1_encoding  "UTF-8"
volume_normalization    "no"
audio_buffer_size       "2048"
buffer_before_play      "10%"
gapless_mp3_playback    "yes"
mixer_type      "software"

input {
plugin  "curl"
}
decoder {
plugin  "ffmpeg"
enabled "yes"
}
state_file      "/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate"

audio_output {
name            "bcm2835 ALSA"
type            "alsa"
device          "hw:0,0"
dsd_usb         "yes"
auto_resample   "no"
auto_format     "no"
enabled         "yes"
}


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