From c1232733b26060e0a610d044d416409f542699fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bboffey Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:05:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update TROUBLESHOOTING.md --- TROUBLESHOOTING.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/TROUBLESHOOTING.md b/TROUBLESHOOTING.md index e29e9fd3..ce63dd54 100644 --- a/TROUBLESHOOTING.md +++ b/TROUBLESHOOTING.md @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ pcm.!default { ipc_key 1024 slave { pcm "hw:1" - rate 48000 + rate 48000 # this line is only needed for USB DACs which only support 48khz period_time 0 period_size 1920 buffer_size 19200 @@ -126,4 +126,8 @@ ctl.!default { card 1 } ```` +This sets the default alsa audio device to be the USB DAC via a dmixer plugin (which can be used by multiple applications at once) using a modified period and buffer size and optionally mix to 48khz. + +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. -- 2.47.3