Music Players DeaDBeef & Audacious problems with Alsa Plug-in
by h66 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5PWQD)
Hi
I am relatively new to Linux so I would appreciate any help/advice with regards to getting the best audio from my rather old system. I want to be able to play PCM as flac and DSD (although that is probably a separate issue). My flac files are both red book 16/44.1 and higher res up to 24/192. I have a USB DAC (Ifi Zen Dac) which is recognised by the OS. The playback issues occur with both the on-board audio card and the external USB DAC. I can play all files using Audacious even .dff but only with Pulse. Changing to Alsa it generates an error message: "ALSA error: snd_pcm_open failed: Device or resource busy".
With Deadbeef I can play flac with Pulse but not .dff. With Alsa It plays sometimes but often it just displays the file info and "Stopped". On other occasions it will play flac at the wrong pitch - 16/44.1 too fast and higher res eg 24/96 far too slow. My aim is to get Deadbeef to work perfectly with Alsa to obtain a bit-perfect playback system. Any help greatly appreciated. (Sorry I cant find the code option to posy system details)
I am relatively new to Linux so I would appreciate any help/advice with regards to getting the best audio from my rather old system. I want to be able to play PCM as flac and DSD (although that is probably a separate issue). My flac files are both red book 16/44.1 and higher res up to 24/192. I have a USB DAC (Ifi Zen Dac) which is recognised by the OS. The playback issues occur with both the on-board audio card and the external USB DAC. I can play all files using Audacious even .dff but only with Pulse. Changing to Alsa it generates an error message: "ALSA error: snd_pcm_open failed: Device or resource busy".
With Deadbeef I can play flac with Pulse but not .dff. With Alsa It plays sometimes but often it just displays the file info and "Stopped". On other occasions it will play flac at the wrong pitch - 16/44.1 too fast and higher res eg 24/96 far too slow. My aim is to get Deadbeef to work perfectly with Alsa to obtain a bit-perfect playback system. Any help greatly appreciated. (Sorry I cant find the code option to posy system details)