[SOLVED] How to set up a USB DAC (Audio Output)

Hello mario and welcome in our forum,

To activate your USB DAC, go to the ‚Raspberry Settings‘ and disable the build-in audio of the Raspberry Pi. Then go into the Audioplayer menu and activate under ‚Squeezelite‘ – ‚advanced settings‘ your usb dac.

I hope this will help you.

Best Regards

Hi bollinim,

You should be able to do so with our MultiSqueeze plugin. Have one Squeezelite running with „sysdefault_hifiberry…“ as output and one Squeezelite (you can create multiple Squeezelite instances with the plugin, as the name suggests) with the USB-DAC output.

Hello, i’ve hooked up my Rasberry via USB to the Oppo BD105 and configured Multisqueeze with 2 players.
The instance configured with HifiBerry works fine but so far i can’t run the second player (the one connected via USB to Oppo BD105, working as dedicated DAC). The instance refuses to run and i suppose i’m doing something wrong in config.

Could you please help me to choose the correct configuration?

Here i have my debug information for you. Thank you in advance for your support

#### SQUEEZELITE VERSION ####
Squeezelite v1.8.4-726, Copyright 2012-2015 Adrian Smith, 2015-2016 Ralph Irving.

#### AUDIOPLAYER CONFIG ####
### Configuration of Audioplayers
SQUEEZELITE_PARAMETER=-o sysdefault:CARD=sndrpihifiberry -a 80:4::
SQUEEZESLAVE_PARAMETER=-n plugequal
SHAIRPORT_PARAMETER=-d default:CARD=sndrpihifiberry
USE_USB_DAC=1
USE_EQUALIZER=0
SYSTEM_USER=pi
YMPD_PARAMETER=–webport 8081
LMSIP=192.168.1.10
MULTISQUEEZE_PLAYERCOUNT=2
MULTISQUEEZE_NAME_0=LivingAnalog
MULTISQUEEZE_PARAMETER_0=-o sysdefault:CARD=sndrpihifiberry -a 80:4::
MULTISQUEEZE_NAME_1=LivingDAC
MULTISQUEEZE_PARAMETER_1=-o plug:equalUSB -a 80:4::

#### SQUEEZELITE -l ####
Output devices:
null – Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
equalUSB
plugequalUSB – Equalizer for USB
dmixerUSB – DMixer for USB
plugdmixerUSB
equal
plugequal – Equalizer for plughw:0,0
default:CARD=sndrpihifiberry – snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus, – Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=sndrpihifiberry – snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus, – Default Audio Device
dmix:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 – snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus, – Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 – snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus, – Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 – snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus, – Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0 – snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus, – Hardware device with all software conversions

Sorry Heiner, i figured out what was the problem.
Oppo BDP 105 is not just a DAC but a full featured Hi End Blu Ray player which can be used as DAC only as well.
As soon as i switched the Oppo input to „USB DAC“, Squeezelite showed me all the Oppo DAC device drivers and since then Max2Play works like a charm with it.

The only problem i’m trying to solve right now is that the 2 MultiSqueeze instances are no registered to mySqueezebox.com as they are the other physical players (and the Squeezelite instance in the Audioplayer too, so before running Multisqueeze). As outcome i can’t see TIDAL plugin as a service for example in iPeng context menus. Any clue on how to fix up this problem?

Thank you and have a good day

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by bollinim.

Hi bollinim,

Thank you for informing us of this issue. We will investigate how best to fix it in an upcoming update.

I already did it when i figured that out.
As stated previously if registration on mysqueezebox fails (BECAUSE OF the same conflicted mac address) the two instances works but what it doesn’t work are the plug ins installed on Squeezebox Server (and i really enjoy TIDAL working seamlessly with my local FLAC library)

It sounds good!