<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I meant to share this last night but sidetracked. These are the specs from the DAC packaging, fwiw. Does this help to address format/capabilities questions?<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/yxgtmfspneva9io/dacSpecs.pdf">https://www.dropbox.com/s/yxgtmfspneva9io/dacSpecs.pdf</a></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 9, 2013, at 5:12 AM, <a href="mailto:linux-audio-user-request@lists.linuxaudio.org">linux-audio-user-request@lists.linuxaudio.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 10:58:49 -0400<br>From: Paul Davis <<a href="mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com">paul@linuxaudiosystems.com</a>><br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:len@ovenwerks.net">len@ovenwerks.net</a><br>Cc: Linux Audio Users <<a href="mailto:linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org">linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [LAU] alsaplayer error using USB Audio DAC<br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><<a href="mailto:CAFa_cKna20vy2MD=Ty=NBP=cdPn6oD9LPvDsCDT78Pg+8w7Piw@mail.gmail.com">CAFa_cKna20vy2MD=Ty=NBP=cdPn6oD9LPvDsCDT78Pg+8w7Piw@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Len Ovens <<a href="mailto:len@ovenwerks.net">len@ovenwerks.net</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Generally for trouble shooting I would hit the card directly:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">alsaplayer -i hw:1,0 filename.flac<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">aplay --device=hw:1,0 filename.flac<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>aplay can't handle anything but straight PCM formats. in addition, using<br>hw:XXX means that the requested data format MUST match the hardware<br>capabilities. if you ask for a sample rate or channel count not supported<br>by the hardware, the device configuration will fail. this is why the<br>"default" device with ALSA is never hw:XXX but at minimum plughw:XXX (which<br>can do just about any format conversion necessary).</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>