Thursday, March 27, 2008

USB DAC in Linux

If your linux desktop has its own soundcard (which in alsa is already the default device), and you need to use your video/audio players to use another usb external one. Find out your usb device's address (usually would be 1,0).

In kaffeine, use hw:1,0 as device name for expert option under Audio in "setting Xine engine parameters". Same thing in vlc. In Amarok, make sure the cross-fading is disable, as when it does cross-fading, it'd try and open up two mixer channels to the device, which if it's a usb external one, it'd crash the software.

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