[LAU] [darkice] (SOLVED & simplified) Re: Cant Get Creative E-MU USB audio interface to work

[Ben Edwards]

I think this is indeed the case.  I was finding the cron run from root 
worked also and the .asoundrc was in the pi user.

Makes it even simpler.

On 01/04/2016 13:12, Paul Davis wrote:
> I would state with almost absolute certainty that your .asoundrc file 
> has no part to play here. The thing that made it work is telling 
> darkice to use plughw:.... rather than hw:... which allows ALSA to 
> fake the hardware setup that darkice says it wants. When you use 
> hw:... you can only use hardware parameters that are directly 
> supported by the hardware itself, which sometimes are not the ones you 
> want/need to use.
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Ben Edwards <ben at funkytwig.com 
> <mailto:ben at funkytwig.com>> wrote:
>
>     OK, got it working, used .~/asoundrc
>
>         pcm_slave.sl3 {
>            pcm "plughw:1,0"
>            channels 2
>            rate 44100
>         }
>
>         pcm.complex_convert {
>            type plug
>            format S16_LE
>            slave sl3
>         }
>
>     And the darkice.cfg input section is
>
>         [input]
>         device          = plughw:1,0    # Alsa soundcard device for
>         the audio input (barenger)
>         sampleRate      = 44100     # sample rate in Hz. try 11025,
>         22050 or 44100
>         bitsPerSample   = 16
>         channel         = 2         # channels. 1 = mono, 2 = stereo
>
>     Ben
>
>
>     On 01/04/2016 11:03, Niels Dettenbach wrote:
>>     Am Freitag, 1. April 2016, 10:53:03 schrieb Ben Edwards:
>>>     OK, just tried that
>>     ...i've figured out that we have a few 24bit consumer interfaces (USB) too
>>     running with darkice.
>>
>>     so it *should* work...
>>
>>     could you try pls:
>>
>>     	device          = plughw:0
>>     or
>>     	device          = plughw:1
>>
>>     instead?
>>
>>     I had to use this instead of the
>>     	device          = hw:0,0
>>
>>     If that did not help, i would try to disable realtime for first until it is
>>     working (just as a shot)...
>>
>>     hth
>
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