Dear All,
I have a well working Digi+ I/O board, that I´m successfully using with REAPER (DAW-software) under raspbian buster. However, when I today decided to test it with chromium and with the speaker-test in a terminal, there´s no sound coming out. I have onboard audio disabled in config.txt.
Anything that´s missing?
Both are terrible tools for tests ;-)
https://www.hifiberry.com/docs/software/playing-test-sounds/
Also check the output of
aplay -l
I tried the play command, but hear nothing. It tells me that:
play WARN alsa: can't encode 0-bit Unknown or not applicable
Output from aplay -l is
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi], device 0: HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0 [HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
So... any ideas about what I´m doing wrong here..?
Could be a hardware or software problem. Does the light on the TOSLink output light up?
As mentioned, it works fine with REAPER, in which you manually select the output device, so it´s indeed a software issue. I actually realized that it in alsamixer, the default output device is pulseaudio (not sure how I may have ended up with this), even if asound.conf in /etc looks like this:
pcm.!default {
type hw card 0
}
ctl.!default {
type hw card 0
}
This could be the reason, right? If so, do you know how to get the hifiberry card to be set as default?
Pulseaudio is a beast. You might check the pulseaudio configuration. But be warned: It can be quite complex :(
Quick fix, sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio - problem solved! Thanks :D