From: Mike Brady Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 12:48:16 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Update TROUBLESHOOTING.md X-Git-Tag: 2.8.1~11^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b4d91b54092191b552f89b931d43265a2814933a;p=thirdparty%2Fshairport-sync.git Update TROUBLESHOOTING.md --- diff --git a/TROUBLESHOOTING.md b/TROUBLESHOOTING.md index ce63dd54..5fb5e680 100644 --- a/TROUBLESHOOTING.md +++ b/TROUBLESHOOTING.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ The installation and setup of Shairport Sync is straightforward on recent Linux In this brief document will be listed some problems and some solutions. +Before starting, ensure that your software is up-to-date. + ### WiFi adapter running in power-saving / low-power mode **Problem** @@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ There is a suspicion (although this is not 100% confirmed) that this is a fun la - Quirky USB DACs (already known to be problematic on the Raspberry Pi more info available [here](https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/usb/README.md#knownissues) For more discussion on this issue see [issue 167](https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync/issues/167) or read on for the quick fix! -**Solution** +**Possible Solution** To get nice smooth audio first check the details of your USB DAC by either using 'aplay -l' which will give you output something like this: ```` **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** @@ -130,4 +132,6 @@ This sets the default alsa audio device to be the USB DAC via a dmixer plugin (w This will then be used by default by Shairport-Sync and any other applications using alsa. -Note that some distributions (such as Volumio 2) don't use an asound.conf file by default, they instead specificy the hardware details directly in '/etc/shairport-sync.conf' and '/etc/mpd.conf' files so some more in depth modification is needed to override this. +Note that some distributions (such as Volumio 2) don't use an asound.conf file by default, they instead specificy the hardware details directly in '/etc/mpd.conf' files so some more in-depth modification is needed to override this. + +(Note: not tested by Mike B.)