-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > Please try putting this into your ~/.asoundrc: > > pcm.stereoonly { type hw card 0 channels 2 } > > and then running "aplay -v -D plug:stereoonly > /.../Front_Center.wav". Does it work? Does it expand the file to > two channels? > I did so and could hear the sound out of the internal sound card and there is no error message that the conversion into two channells did not work: aplay -v -D plug:stereoonly /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono Plug PCM: Route conversion PCM (sformat=S16_LE) Transformation table: 0 <- 0 1 <- 0 Its setup is: stream : PLAYBACK access : RW_INTERLEAVED format : S16_LE subformat : STD channels : 1 rate : 48000 exact rate : 48000 (48000/1) msbits : 16 buffer_size : 16384 period_size : 4096 period_time : 85333 tstamp_mode : NONE period_step : 1 avail_min : 4096 period_event : 0 start_threshold : 16384 stop_threshold : 16384 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 1073741824 Slave: Hardware PCM card 0 'bcm2835 ALSA' device 0 subdevice 0 Its setup is: stream : PLAYBACK access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED format : S16_LE subformat : STD channels : 2 rate : 48000 exact rate : 48000 (48000/1) msbits : 16 buffer_size : 16384 period_size : 4096 period_time : 85333 tstamp_mode : NONE period_step : 1 avail_min : 4096 period_event : 0 start_threshold : 16384 stop_threshold : 16384 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 1073741824 appl_ptr : 0 hw_ptr : 0 If I set it for the external sound card by changing "card 0" to "card 1" aplay -v -D plug:stereoonly /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav still gives the error Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono aplay: set_params:1297: Unable to install hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 16 FRAME_BITS: 16 CHANNELS: 1 RATE: 48000 PERIOD_TIME: 125000 PERIOD_SIZE: 6000 PERIOD_BYTES: 12000 PERIODS: 4 BUFFER_TIME: 500000 BUFFER_SIZE: 24000 BUFFER_BYTES: 48000 TICK_TIME: 0 Kind regards, Hauke -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlcWsVQACgkQjz8jfoq989ckEACdE4cZQyPb/RGyD1nvs8J118U/ IRoAn2AySIljwyO8pwDiEtrJRzZwsaOT =8B9V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user