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No Sound on any zone (except the default player) from MC24 Ubuntu 16 & 18
bob:
--- Quote from: percy on June 20, 2018, 09:15:51 am ---But if i open that same device with the linux ALSA aplay it plays the music file on the requested 2 channels without any problem. And so does MC23! That is the reason which make me belive that the problem is somewhere in MC24. If you provide me with cat /proc/asound/cards output. Then i can provide you with the corresponding /etc/asound.conf file so jou can try it out on your system. Then maybe we can get a more detailed error info.
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Why are you modifying the conf file in the first place? I've never had to do that.
percy:
Finally an easy one. As you could have guessed by looking at the "asound.conf" my system has the 7.1 channels audio from the motherboard as well as a Xonar ST plus the H6 extension board delivering another 7.1 channels. Now my home has speakers all around the house. 2 channels (stereo) in the bedroom, the bureau, the work room and the dining room. Then there are 1 channel (mono) speakers in the bathroom the terrace the kitchen and the WC. Everything was wired in when the house was build. In the storage room, where all the wiring comes together the Ubuntu 18.04 PC with JRiver MC24 is connected to a 12 channel amplifier plus a stereo amplifier powering all these speakers. On to of this there is, over the network using DLNA, the PS Audio Direct Stream DAC for the living room.
So I need to separate all these stereo and mono channels out of the two 7.1 channels provided by the on board an additional sound card.
That is what the ALSA configuration (in /etc/asound.conf) is all about. By the way this same configuration file could have been located in the home directory of the user running MC24 but then it would have been called "~/.asoundrc" and would have been user specific there where the one in /etc is system wide. The content would have been exactly the same.
Awesome Donkey:
Personally, I've only ever edited /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf on Arch Linux/Antergos to get the hw: outputs working.
percy:
If you look at /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf you will see that it includes both /etc/asound.conf and the .asoundrc from the home directory of the user (and in that sequence).
So what is in my asound.conf could have been in /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf but is it preferred to leave that file untouched and put the specific configuration settings in the two (asound.conf, .asoundrc)
percy:
I forgot to add the URL of the explanation of the ALSA asound configuration for easy reference
https://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc
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