Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] MPD Audio Output settings

2010-12-21 Thread CarstenBreuer
Hi Sean, thank you very much for your explanations about PulseAudio. I was able to play audio with MPD over the SPDIF output of the synergy soundcard, but i have to configure it from the GUI. The following questions are left: 1. How can i list and then select the profiles for a card from

Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] MPD Audio Output settings

2010-12-21 Thread Sean McNamara
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:11 PM, CarstenBreuer carstenbreuer...@textwork.de wrote: Hi Sean, thank you very much for your explanations about PulseAudio. I was able to play audio with MPD over the SPDIF output of the synergy soundcard, but i have to configure it from the GUI. The following

[Musicpd-dev-team] MPD Audio Output settings

2010-12-20 Thread Carsten Breuer
Hi all, i'm using mpd for almost a decade now and it always works great. I had used the oss output drivers, because it was very easy to get mpd installed and configured with in in 5 minutes. I had only to look for what /dev/dsp are available and point mpd to the right one. These days and OSS

Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] MPD Audio Output settings

2010-12-20 Thread CarstenBreuer
Hi Sean, hi all, first of all thank you for the very detailed answer. I appreciate that :-). 1. How do i get a list of the available channels in MPD/Alsa notation (hw:x,x or plughw:x,x)? Device enumeration in ALSA is a non-trivial problem. To be honest, the one piece of software I know of

Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] MPD Audio Output settings

2010-12-20 Thread Sean McNamara
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:45 PM, CarstenBreuer carstenbreuer...@textwork.de wrote: Hi Sean, hi all, first of all thank you for the very detailed answer. I appreciate that :-). 1. How do i get a list of the available channels in   MPD/Alsa notation (hw:x,x or plughw:x,x)? Device