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2. Juni 2016 at 1:14 #20427
Hi !
I have juste receive an Pi-DigiAMP+ from max2play shop 🙂
All working great, but i cant use equalizer with squeezelite.
My squeezelite settings -> soundcard: plugequal
Command line option : -o hw:CARD=IQaudIODAC -V DigitalAny idea?
Best regards,
Marc8. Juni 2016 at 11:20 #20547Hi Marc,
Please try only entering „-o plug:plugequal“ in the command line.19. Juni 2016 at 1:01 #20735SOLVED!
I was having the same problem as many: the equalizer just would not work with my HiFiBerry AMP+. After much web research and testing, I found the problem is in the alsa config file (/etc/asound.conf). Here’s how to fix the problem:
To find out what sound cards you have on your system, display the contents of /proc/asound/cards:
`$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [ALSA ]: bcm2835 – bcm2835 ALSA
bcm2835 ALSA
1 [sndrpihifiberry]: snd_rpi_hifiber – snd_rpi_hifiberry_amp
snd_rpi_hifiberry_amp`Here you can see my HifiBerry Amp+ is seen as card 1. However the ALSA configuration file (/etc/asound.conf) is pointing to card 0, the default card:
$ cat /etc/asound.conf ctl.!default { type hw card 0 } pcm.equal { type plug; slave.pcm plugequal; } ctl.equal { type equal; module "Eq10"; } pcm.plugequal { type equal; module "Eq10"; slave { pcm "plughw:0,0"; } hint {show on;description "Equalizer for plughw:0,0"}
To fix the problem, you need to change all references in /etc/asound.conf from card 0 to your card (1, in my case). Here is my corrected /etc/asound.conf:
$ cat /etc/asound.conf ctl.!default { type hw card 1 } pcm.equal { type plug; slave.pcm plugequal; } ctl.equal { type equal; module "Eq10"; } pcm.plugequal { type equal; module "Eq10"; slave { pcm "plughw:1,0"; } hint {show on;description "Equalizer for plughw:1,0"}
Now reboot your machine, then go into the Max2Play Audio Player->Advanced Configuration. Change the Sound Card to „plugequal – Equalizer for plughw:1,0“. I also changed my ALSA Parameters to „80:::“ and the Command Line Options to „-r 44100-48000 -u hL::::“.
Save everything, reboot again, and you should be good to go.
Warning: I have a very basic system; just a stock RPi2 and a HiFiBerry AMP+. If your system has additional hardware or a different amp/DAC, your mileage may vary, but the basic approach should get you where you need to go.
Hope this works as well for everyone!
- This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by HandyGuy.
20. Juni 2016 at 23:58 #20774Hi !
Thank to Heiner and HandyGuy for your help!
I’ll try when i’m back to home…
Best regards,
Marc12. März 2017 at 14:10 #27599Marc, did you manage to get the equalizer to work? Ive tried all sorts but with no success.
cheers
Peter12. März 2017 at 14:14 #27600Marc, did you manage to get the equalizer to work? Ive tried all I can find from the forum but with no success.
cheers
Peter
12. März 2017 at 19:22 #27606try to erase anything entered in the commandline and try the use the equalizer.
Regards,
Mohammad Mbydeen12. März 2017 at 19:36 #27607thanks for the reply, tried what you said but didn’t work if I select „plugequal“ soundcard the player will start and music will play but there is no sound at all and if I select the „equal-equal“ card the player wont start
14. März 2017 at 18:59 #27736Hi petefilltir !
I havent found the time to test … i’m finishing to build my new house 🙂
I will try next month !Regards,
Marc14. April 2017 at 22:47 #28258still havnt found an answer. Ive now got a new setup of a rpi zero w with a just boom amp zero and cant get the equalizer to work on that either seems to me its just for show! nobody seems to have it working on any setup!!!!
23. April 2017 at 2:13 #28411HandyGuy …
Thanks – perfect solution!
I have 4 Raspi w/HiFiBerry cards of different types and your solution worked for them all.
So simple … the solution is independent of sound card type. I wonder if it works for bluetooth speakers as well?????Again, thank you for taking the time to post and help others.
Bob
24. April 2017 at 22:54 #28451No problem, Bob. Happy to help. I saw some others on this thread were still having problems, but no idea if they were able to solve them. Hopefully they were able to get it working.
Your mention of the BT speakers is interesting. I’ve tried several variants of BT configuration with M2P but never got it to work properly. My goal (slightly different than yours) is to set up the RPi/HFB to act as a Bluetooth sink so I can stream from my phone/tablet into M2P and have it play through the connected speakers. That would allow me to listen to music other than what is on my home media server.
The last time a poked at this was around a year ago and never got it to work right or consistently. But, the tech has changed in the past year so I may pick this up again with a new RPI3 and see if that makes any difference.
12. Mai 2017 at 18:38 #28826Thank HandyGuy & Heiner !!!
Working now with your instruction for asound.conf and the commandline from heiner
Marc
11. August 2017 at 17:39 #30573I still have issues.
Even altering the asound.conf to show „1“ ; the option in the drop down is still 0 🙁16. März 2018 at 0:44 #34462The HandyGuy /etc/asound.conf fix works perfectly, but it overwritten every time I restart the RasPi.
How can I make the changes permanent?
19. März 2018 at 13:20 #34526Okay, we will try to recreate this issue. Thank you for your collaboration and patience.
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