Re: audioquest dragonfly not connecting with alsa

John and list,

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 9:38 AM John Covici <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 12:11:33 -0500,
> chris hermansen wrote:
> >
> > [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> > John and list;
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 8:28 AM John Covici <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.  I have a ?Dragonfly Red which is supposed to be a USB dac, and I
> > > am unable to connectit with alsa.
>

[various bits deleted]

>
> Thanks for your quick reply.  I would like to use a regular console
> player such as mpv or some such to play directly to alsa without pulse
> audio, and when I do /proc/asound/card1/stream0 I get much the same as
> you.  so, for mpv, they have --audio-device=alsa/ and then they want
> the alsa device name, so what can I put there?  Here is my current
> /etc/asound.conf .
>

Check out this link: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/3955

It seems to suggest something like the following:

@NapoleonWils0n <https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n>
> You might try audio-device=alsa/plughw:1,0 like example here
> https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#options-audio-device
> Didn't test it myself, though
>



> The second card mentioned in the .conf is another dac which I have,
> but I could put a third stanza in there, if I knew what to put.
>

I don't have any suggestions about the .conf as I've never used one myself.


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