slingshotx wrote: > I recently downloaded picoreplayer 2.0.5 and found the audio quality > terrible, with really bad distortion using the 3.5mm jack connected to a > heap Sony amp. > > So I did some googling and investigation and in the end discovered the > distortion was due to the alsa volume level being set to 100% which gave > a DB gain of 4 DB. By running alsamixer and dropping the volume to about > 86% (0 db gain) the distortion went. > > Just posting this in case it is of use to anyone else, since I didn't > find this solution anywhere else. The tweaks page on the picoreplayer > has a "ALSA output level" section that tells you what to do. i think the > audio quality is better now, but I intend to get a I2S DAC connected up, > it still doesn't seem to be CD quality. > > Hope that's of some use > > Thanks for the software.
This might be of interest https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=136445 bear in mind that it is still beta and may well not be applicable to pCp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Man in a van's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43627 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105018 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
