USB Audio Low volume

[Toube]

Hi guys,

firstly I'd like to thank you for providing such an innovative and beautiful application for playing music.
I really like the UI, I firstly tried the Pi MusicBox but it was just not my thing.

Sorry for being lazy and not searching through the forums.
I'm using the release version: 0.4b (build: 20170229) on a Raspberry Pi 3

I have a Asus Xonar U7 MK2 usb sound card and it works really well but I get a bit of low volume with it.
Tried using alsamixer through terminal, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything.
I have hardware volume enabled in the settings.
Is there anything I can try to get the volume a bit louder?

Debug output:
https://pastebin.com/WDvgs09p

Regards and many thanks.
Toube

[Toube]

I tried to follow this: volume-low-with-iqaudio-dac-t2861.html
How do set the volume level in alsamixer? If I use arrow up keys for each channel the volume will increase but the volume know on the UI show totally different value than the alsamixer. How can I get the volume know in the UI to be in sync with alsamixer volume?

[Toube]

if I use amixer to set volume for like 60% it will print out the following:

amixer -c 0 set PCM 60%
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right - Rear Left - Rear Right - Front Center - Woofer - Side Left - Side Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 127
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 77 [61%] [-50.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 77 [61%] [-50.00dB] [on]
Rear Left: Playback 77 [61%] [-50.00dB] [on]
Rear Right: Playback 77 [61%] [-50.00dB] [on]
Front Center: Playback 77 [61%] [-50.00dB] [on]
Woofer: Playback 77 [61%] [-50.00dB] [on]
Side Left: Playback 77 [61%] [-50.00dB] [on]
Side Right: Playback 77 [61%] [-50.00dB] [on]

This will also show the UI volume with 61 as volume.

[Toube]

Let me rephrase my question.
How can I set the volume control knob in the UI so that it matches the alsamixer settings. Now it seems that when turning the UI knob to 40 % it is the same as the alsamixers level 5db and there is barely any sound. Is it possible to make it produce sound when turning the knob from 0% and upwards?

[hondagx35]

Hi,

please try:

- set software control
- turn up the volume to 100%
- set hardware control

Frank

[Toube]

[Toube]

Hi,
all working after I updated the mpd using the addon.

Regards,
Toube

[Toube]