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audiolover:
When I open the settings menu in JRiver I have different options for the output:

FRONT-HW-IEC958-DMIX etcetera. What is the difference and/or which one to choose?

Awesome Donkey:
I'd recommend choosing a front: or hw: output (which matches your sound card/DAC) with DEV=0.

audiolover:
OK, so there is NO difference in quality using either one? Is ALSA the way to go or are there better (more audiophile) solutions?

Awesome Donkey:
Nope, both front: and hw: are bit-perfect ALSA outputs that bypass (don't go through) any system mixer. If you use the Pulse output, everything is resampled and dithered to 24-bit/48 kHz by the system mixer if I recall correctly.

ALSA is the way to go. If you have both front: and hw: as choices (like I do on Ubuntu), I tend to choose the hw: output for no any specific reason. However on my Arch Linux install I only have front: as an output option so I use that instead. There's no difference in quality and choosing between them is a personal choice. EDIT: I now have the hw: outputs on Arch Linux - thankfully it was easy to do by simply porting alsa.conf and alsa-base.conf from Ubuntu to Arch Linux and the hw: outputs work great along with everything else sound related.

linefader:

--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on December 28, 2017, 07:49:35 am --- .. on my Arch Linux install ..

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can you point me to the location where you downloaded your JRiver Mediacenter that installs successfully on Arch?

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