Support for Creative USB soundcard

[jotak]

Hello,

As discussed with Andrea, I can't get my Creative USB soundcard working with RuneAudio. Here's my system info :
http://pastebin.com/Qx52WfPb

Some more information: I have "USB Device 0x41e:0x30d3" that appears on the MPD config page as audio output, but once selected I can't play anything.

I had the same issue with version 0.2, it didn't produce any sound.
However it was working correctly on Raspyfi. If there's anything of interest I can do to collect information with the working version (raspyfi), please tell me.

When running "mpc play" from terminal it says:
volume: n/a repeat: off random: off single: off consume: off
ERROR: Failed to open audio output

I'm currently running a full system upgrade to see if it's better, there's some ALSA stuff being upgraded.. If it breaks something (I mean, more than it's currently broken) I'll reinstall from a clean version.

PS: I'm talking about this sound card : http://asia.creative.com/p/sound-blaste ... aster-play

[cmh714]

this section of mpd.conf isnt correct...your device seems to be 1 which it sort of got...
audio_output {
name "USB Device 0x41e:0x30d3"
type "alsa"
device "hw:1,"
auto_resample "no"
auto_format "no"
}

change to this:

audio_output {
name "USB Device 0x41e:0x30d3"
type "alsa"
device "hw:1,0"
auto_resample "no"
auto_format "no"
enabled "yes"
}

[Orion]

Hi jotak,
you have found a bug in our auto-configuration routine.
I'll study your debug output looking to catch the error.
Thanks for your debug informations.
For now, manually correct the wrong line of mpd.conf as cmh714 says.
Stay tuned.

Simone.

[jotak]

Thanks for your answer. I changed mpd.conf as you said, but it doesn't make any difference. Actually I may have to restart MPD but I don't know how to do it under ArchLinux (I'm used to having /etc/init.d/mpd restart, but it's different here, how should I do?)

So I just rebooted the whole system, unfortunately the mpd.conf did automatically rewrite with the same incorrect line 'device "hw:1,"'

And the same if I go through the MPD config page on the web UI, the file is then rewritten with that "hw:1,"

[Orion]

[Orion]

[jotak]

Nice! Thank you, i've got my sound now

I commented out this line, now restarting the PI doesn't overwrite the config, thanks.

BTW I answer to myself, here's how to restart MPD:
systemctl restart mpd

[Orion]

Good job.

Probably I will need some other debug information from your machine.
Can I disturb you with some other debug requests, in these days?

[jotak]

[cmh714]

if I understand the output, your correct device name is without the :

it is what is between the [ ]

so try taking the colon out of name in mpd.conf, although that just may be a label

but as long as youre working