PulseAudio on OpenWRT with MPD and other Stuff: Difference between revisions

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There's a bunch of stuff about Cookies (one of PulseAudio's security methods), anonymous authentication, etc., but this is the simplest and works without changing PulseAudio's default configuration.
There's a bunch of stuff about Cookies (one of PulseAudio's security methods), anonymous authentication, etc., but this is the simplest and works without changing PulseAudio's default configuration.


=== Surround Sound ===
===Surround Sound===
First thing to do is this, enable or put this item in the /etc/pulse/default.conf file: <code>default-sample-channels = 6</code>
First thing to do is this, enable or put this item in the /etc/pulse/default.conf file: <code>default-sample-channels = 6</code>


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*...and just as a note, stopping and starting pulseaudio has the net effect of re-reading the /etc/asound.conf file.
*...and just as a note, stopping and starting pulseaudio has the net effect of re-reading the /etc/asound.conf file.
*...and pkill -9 pulseaudio (works great if the process is 'stuck', and don't forget okpg install procps-ng-pkill)
*...and pkill -9 pulseaudio (works great if the process is 'stuck', and don't forget okpg install procps-ng-pkill)
/usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/ : Path to ALSAMIXER settings (yup, PulseAudio is in the path!)
/proc/asound/card0/usbmixer : possible location where ALSAMIXER gets names for different controls


alsactl<span> </span>: Good for testing basic sound device settings (Top Tip: By default, for whatever reason, the "state" (AKA stored configuration) Directory (/var/lib/alsa) does not exist, so create it.
alsactl<span> </span>: Good for testing basic sound device settings (Top Tip: By default, for whatever reason, the "state" (AKA stored configuration) Directory (/var/lib/alsa) does not exist, so create it.
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alsamixer: shows a text GUI of controls
alsamixer: shows a text GUI of controls
cat /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices : shows details about various USB Devices


aplay -l<span> </span>: shows list of sound devices
aplay -l<span> </span>: shows list of sound devices