Indeed! I just used alsamixer, the gain levels looked to 100% but in fact the symbol at their bottom indicated they were muted. Not so visible...
Thanks for the tip! I will update my posts referring to this problem.
But
why this behavior?
EDIT: now I have to activate my sound card with alsamixer
every time I start RuneAudio, even after a "normal" shutdown via the GUI. Very annoying! Any clue to solve this?
###### System info ######
Linux version 3.12.20-4-ARCH (nobody@root-armv6-copy) (gcc version 4.8.2 20131219 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Tue May 27 19:18:36 MDT 2014
system load: 0.05 0.10 0.06 2/87 595
HW platform: RaspberryPi (01)
playerID: 01999583dcf100eee73167fa4a8e995ae4
###### Audio backend ######
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version k3.12.20-4-ARCH.
Card list: (/proc/asound/cards)
--------------------------------------------------
0 [X20 ]: USB-Audio - XMOS USB Audio 2.0
XMOS XMOS USB Audio 2.0 at usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3.4, high speed
1 [ALSA ]: bcm2835 - bcm2835 ALSA
bcm2835 ALSA
ALSA interface #0: (/proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/info)
--------------------------------------------------
card: 0
device: 0
subdevice: 0
stream: PLAYBACK
id: USB Audio
name: USB Audio
subname: subdevice #0
class: 0
subclass: 0
subdevices_count: 1
subdevices_avail: 0
ALSA interface #1: (/proc/asound/card1/pcm0p/info)
--------------------------------------------------
card: 1
device: 0
subdevice: 0
stream: PLAYBACK
id: bcm2835 ALSA
name: bcm2835 ALSA
subname: subdevice #0
class: 0
subclass: 0
subdevices_count: 8
subdevices_avail: 8
interface #0 stream status: (/proc/asound/card0/stream0)
--------------------------------------------------------
XMOS XMOS USB Audio 2.0 at usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3.4, high speed : USB Audio
Playback:
Status: Running
Interface = 1
Altset = 1
Packet Size = 63
Momentary freq = 44099 Hz (0x5.8328)
Feedback Format = 16.16
Interface 1
Altset 1
Format: S32_LE
Channels: 2
Endpoint: 1 OUT (ASYNC)
Rates: 44100, 48000, 88200, 96000, 176400, 192000, 352800, 384000
Data packet interval: 125 us
interface #1 stream status: (/proc/asound/card1/stream0)
--------------------------------------------------------
no stream present
###### Kernel module snd_usb_audio settings ######
Module = "snd_usb_audio"
Attributes:
coresize = "117472"
initsize = "0"
initstate = "live"
refcnt = "1"
srcversion = "133E7F262EC8EAB8780E417"
taint = ""
uevent =
Parameters:
autoclock = "Y"
device_setup = "0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0"
enable = "Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y"
id = "(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null)"
ignore_ctl_error = "N"
index = "0,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1"
nrpacks = "3"
pid = "-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1"
vid = "-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1"
Sections:
.ARM.exidx.exit.text= "0xbf1ddf04"
.ARM.exidx.init.text= "0xbf1ddefc"
.ARM.exidx = "0xbf1e0648"
.ARM.extab = "0xbf1e060c"
.ARM.extab.init.text= "0xbf1ddef0"
.bss = "0xbf1e36e4"
.data = "0xbf1e0b8c"
.exit.text = "0xbf1db540"
.gnu.linkonce.this_module= "0xbf1e3570"
.init.text = "0xbf1ec000"
.note.gnu.build-id = "0xbf1e0b68"
.rodata = "0xbf1db550"
.rodata.str1.4 = "0xbf1ddf0c"
.strtab = "0xbf1f1368"
.symtab = "0xbf1ec048"
.text = "0xbf1ce000"
__param = "0xbf1e057c"
###### Kernel optimization parameters ######
hardware platform: RaspberryPi
current orionprofile: RuneAudio
kernel scheduler for mmcblk0: [noop] deadline cfq
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness: 0
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_latency_ns: 1500000
###### Filesystem mounts ######
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext4 rw,noatime,nouser_xattr,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=90488k,nr_inodes=22622,mode=755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
mqueue /dev/mqueue mqueue rw,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
systemd-1 /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc autofs rw,relatime,fd=21,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/devices cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/net_prio cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_prio 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
configfs /sys/kernel/config configfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=755 0 0
Ramdisk /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=262144k 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw 0 0
rpc_pipefs /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p3 /mnt/MPD/Musique ext4 rw,noatime,nouser_xattr,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/root /var/tmp ext4 rw,noatime,nouser_xattr,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/MPD/USB/Holy\040Key fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
###### mpd.conf ######
###################################
# Auto generated mpd.conf file
# please DO NOT edit it manually!
# Use RuneUI MPD config section
###################################
follow_outside_symlinks "yes"
follow_inside_symlinks "yes"
db_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db"
log_file "/var/log/runeaudio/mpd.log"
pid_file "/var/run/mpd/pid"
music_directory "/mnt/MPD"
playlist_directory "/var/lib/mpd/playlists"
state_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate"
user "mpd"
bind_to_address "any"
port "6600"
log_level "default"
zeroconf_enabled "yes"
zeroconf_name "runeaudio"
volume_normalization "no"
audio_buffer_size "2048"
buffer_before_play "0%"
filesystem_charset "UTF-8"
id3v1_encoding "UTF-8"
gapless_mp3_playback "yes"
auto_update "no"
mixer_type "disabled"
group "audio"
max_connections "20"
decoder {
plugin "ffmpeg"
enabled "no"
}
input {
plugin "curl"
}
audio_output {
enabled "yes"
type "alsa"
name "USB-Audio"
device "hw:0,0"
dsd_usb "yes"
}
audio_output {
enabled "yes"
type "null"
name "Null"
}
audio_output {
enabled "no"
type "alsa"
device "hw:1,0"
name "AnalogJack/HDMI"
}