Hi,
I installed Rune and liked what I could understand thus far. I am not very good without a DE though.
So, I am replying to myself hoping to get this question answered.
In studying the website that prompted me to use ecasound i noted that the author implements mpd as well as an alternative to ecasound. Since RuneAudio uses mpd would this configuration with a multi-channel usb card be possible if I were to use Rune? I have pulled the text directly from his website. If so, this would be ideal as I really like how well-configured Rune is for audio.
MPD is a viable and highly configurable replacement for the squeezebox and other network media players. The xover/eq described here can be built into mpd quite easily. For example, to have mpd send its output through the 2-way crossover example above, you could put the following definition in your mpd.conf:
audio_output {
type "pipe"
name "DSP crossover/eq"
format "44100:32:2"
mixer_type "software"
command "ecasound -q -z:nodb -z:mixmode,sum
-a:pre -f:s32_le,2,44100 -i:stdin -pf:/etc/pre.ecp -o:loop,1
-a:woofer,tweeter -i:loop,1
-a:woofer -pf:/etc/woofer.ecp -chorder:1,2,0,0
-a:tweeter -pf:/etc/tweeter.ecp -chorder:0,0,1,2
-a:woofer,tweeter -f:16,4,44100 -o:alsa,surround51:Device
}
This creates an mpd output that pipes 32-bit stereo PCM to ecasound, which then applies the crossover and sends all 4 output channels to the soundcard. For this to work you’ll need to build mpd from source with --enable-pipe-output.
Thanks in advance!