Re: [LAU] alsaplayer error using USB Audio DAC

From: Roger Weinheimer <rweinheimer@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Aug 10 2013 - 04:42:25 EEST

I meant to share this last night but sidetracked. These are the specs from the DAC packaging, fwiw. Does this help to address format/capabilities questions?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yxgtmfspneva9io/dacSpecs.pdf

On Aug 9, 2013, at 5:12 AM, linux-audio-user-request@email-addr-hidden wrote:

> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 10:58:49 -0400
> From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
> To: len@email-addr-hidden
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> Subject: Re: [LAU] alsaplayer error using USB Audio DAC
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> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Len Ovens <len@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
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>>
>> Generally for trouble shooting I would hit the card directly:
>> alsaplayer -i hw:1,0 filename.flac
>>
>> aplay --device=hw:1,0 filename.flac
>>
>
> aplay can't handle anything but straight PCM formats. in addition, using
> hw:XXX means that the requested data format MUST match the hardware
> capabilities. if you ask for a sample rate or channel count not supported
> by the hardware, the device configuration will fail. this is why the
> "default" device with ALSA is never hw:XXX but at minimum plughw:XXX (which
> can do just about any format conversion necessary).

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