Let's brainstorm..Setting up MinimServer to feed a USB DAC

[PeteManchester]

(25-11-2013 22:17)simoncn Wrote:  Hi Pete,
Thanks for all your work on this.

I've tried it, but I'm not having much luck so far. MediaPlayer shows up in the control point, but nothing happens when I attempt to play a file. Are there any diagnostics or tracing that I can use to find out what's happening?

I don't (yet) have a USB DAC: should it be OK to use the RPi's built-in audio to get things up and running?

Simon

Hi Simon,

It will work with through the build in audio headphone socket, I have one raspi which does this.

There is configuration for a log file in the file:
/home/pi/mediaplayer/app.properties
There are the options:
log.file=mediaplayer.log
log.file.level=error

The log file level can be set to debug,info.warn,error,fatal,off

Config Options

Does the timer start increasing when you start a track playing, if not it could be a problem with the install of mpd (or mplayer if you have configured mediaplayer to use mplayer).

If the timer is increasing then it could be an issue with the way the soundcard/internal audio is configured.

The command :
alsamixer
Is quite useful to show if a sound device is configured and it allows you to adjust the volume.

Then there are articles like this that are useful.

I have found that the recent versions of raspian work straight away, some older versions need a few tweaks to get the sound working.

Thanks,

Pete.