Re: Configuring ALSA and SCHIIT BIfrost for "bit perfect"

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On 12.09.2012 18:29, chris hermansen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Daniel Mack <zonque@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 12.09.2012 02:37, chris hermansen wrote:
>>> The build and install appeared to work just fine, though it seems one
> ...
>>
>> Yes, it seems the feedback format detector still assumes wrong things.
>>
>> What you could try is to make the driver ignore more of these packets by
>> changing the value in sound/usb/quirks.c (in the line that was added by
>> the path). Then rebuild, reinstall, reboot and test. Try higher values,
>> like ep->skip_packets = 50 or so maybe.
>>
>> If that doesn't help, I need to come up with another idea.
> 
> Question: I am assuming I can make that change and redo the last make line
> (ie not all the configuration, etc).  Is that a safe assumption?

Yes, just re-run the make-kpkg command from the wiki page, then install
the new .deb file.

> Comment: In case there was something else weird going on with pulse audio,
> I disabled its auto respawning feature by putting the following
> 
> autospawn = no
> 
> in ~/.pulse/client.conf, killed the pulse audio daemons, checked that they
> were really gone, and tried with Quod Libet instead of Guayadeque using
> instructions from
> 
> http://www.head-fi.org/t/561961/bit-perfect-audio-from-linux
> 
> to wit, I set the output pipeline to
> 
> alsasink device=hw:1,0
> 

You can also use the "pasuspender" utility for that.

> consistent and incorrect behaviour there; first song played of a certain
> bit rate / bit depth is garbled; second is clear.

I suggest using aplay for that kind of test. It's the simplest client I
can think of, and the less logic you have in the chain the better.



Daniel


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