ALLO BOSS 2 PLAYER
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Sean de Silva
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You are still inside the pager. Type the letter q to quit.
So mpd is actually playing the song. But is it playing on the correct device?
Once your quit the less pager by typing the letter q, you will come to the shell prompt.
Type the following command
aplay -l
The above command will show list of all ALSA sound devices on your system.
Maybe your mpd.conf is screwed up. First type the above 'aplay -l' command. Then I will tell you how to look at mpd.conf
Sean de Silva
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This shows that there is nothing wrong with the setup. Your allo boss2 card is recognized and working. Now let us see the file /etc/mpd.conf.
This is a large file.
So again use the less command. type the following command
Once you do that, it will show you mpd configuration one page at a time. Pressing the space bar will move the display forward.
Keep obvserving the lines. Once you see the entry starting with audio_output, observe the lines after that.
paste that section here.
To help you understand what we are looking for, I'm pasting screenshot of my mpd.conf. It is configured for multiple devices and hence has
multiple audio_output lines as below.
Another thing that is possible is the the volume control is at zero. To confirm everything is fine with volume control you can run the command
The above command will show you volume control. You can use the up and down arrow keys to increase decrease volume. But we will examine the alsamixer command later. First let us confirm that your mpd.conf is fine
Sean de Silva
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REGENERATE didn't work as mentioned earlier
Sean de Silva
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Your boss2 device is not listed here. It is impossible for mpd to play to your boss2 card with this configuration. Let me take a look at what you did in your earlier messages. It is something to do with the moode config. But we can fix this. Give me few minutes to look at your earlier posts.
In the ALSA options screen
This shouldn't be plughw. It should be Direct. Change it and see if it solves your problem You will have to restart mpd after this
Are you able to stream music from spotify or something else and see if sound comes..
I once faced issue with moode USB audio output...in my case I just changed output to 3.5mm once, heard it is working and changed back to USB sound output...then it started working
Might not harm to try it as it takes just 2 mins
Sean de Silva
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alsamixer command
changed to Direct (hw) and restarted but still no sound from hdd playback. Should I change it back to plughw ?
Your mpd.conf still doesn't have boss2. In the ALSA screen, I saw an option 'volume control' set to software. Set that to hardware and see.
mpd will not be able to play to boss2 as long as you don't see boss2 in the 'mpc outputs' command. You said you took a backup. Where is the backup. We can add the boss2 in the audio output. But that will require some editing skills.
Keep on trying varoius options in the moode settings and after earch setting, restart mpd. After that use the mpc outputs command to see if boss2 appears in the output
There is another option. I can login to your device if you install zerotier and fix it. But let's see if this can be solved by some moode settting.
We can carry the troubleshooting on whatsapp if you like.
@premoddev can you login to your boss2 and paste the output of the command 'mpc outputs'
pi@moode:/etc $ mpc outputs
Output 1 (ALSA Default) is enabled
allowed_formats=""
dop="0"
Output 2 (ALSA Bluetooth) is disabled
allowed_formats=""
dop="0"
Output 3 (HTTP Server) is disabled
Ok. Then it is going to some thing like graphic equalizer or some software.
Is there a graphic equalizer on moode?
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