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Otello:
Sorry for the dumb question: is native DSD supported by the Linux version?
I'm asking because I'm testing a DAC which works only with native DSD; according to the producer, to get native DSD I only need ALSA lib superior or equal to 1.0.29 (I have 1.1.something), but I only get DoP.
I'm using a pretty default Mint 18.1, the only change I made was removing pulseaudio.

Thanks

bob:

--- Quote from: Otello on June 29, 2017, 08:01:25 am ---Sorry for the dumb question: is native DSD supported by the Linux version?
I'm asking because I'm testing a DAC which works only with native DSD; according to the producer, to get native DSD I only need ALSA lib superior or equal to 1.0.29 (I have 1.1.something), but I only get DoP.
I'm using a pretty default Mint 18.1, the only change I made was removing pulseaudio.

Thanks

--- End quote ---
There is no support for DSD without DoP yet.
I'm getting conflicting information about how it's implemented with various devices in ALSA.

Awesome Donkey:
If I recall correctly, it also depends on if you're using a somewhat newer Linux kernel in your distro.

bob:

--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on June 29, 2017, 08:35:23 am ---If I recall correctly, it also depends on if you're using a somewhat newer Linux kernel in your distro.

--- End quote ---
That is the case.
The trouble I'm having is that even though some modes are defined in ALSA, for example DSD_U8, DSD_U16, etc and some device show that they support those formats, it seems that they aren't being used and the format SPECIAL with no documentation that I can find is being used. Until the interface is documented properly I don't see much point in dealing with it.

Awesome Donkey:
Yeah, in my limited search all I found was this for Fedora.

Looks complicated regardless, compared to Windows and Mac.

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