Triode wrote: > I think the advantage is debatable - its only worthwhile if the dac has > a hardware volume which is actually implemented in the device driver > (otherwise software volume moves from squeezelite to somewhere in alsa > and I can vouch for it less!) > > One of the motivations (the main motivation) though was to allow > squeezelite to work on devices which have default alsa volume controls > at mute or low volume levels. Otherwise on a small installation you > need to manually adjust the volume first with alsamixer or equivalent.
Actually I think there's another option I need which is to set the asla volume to 100% and then use the software volume - is is probably as useful for just ensuring the alsa volume is doing nothing. Any views? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
