HifiBerry Digi+ not working

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Spaetzle premium

5. Oktober 2016 at 17:41 #23283

Hi
I bought a Raspberry 3 with a HifiBerry Digi+ and a license for Max2Play some days ago.
I am trying to set it up as „Starter: A simple audioplayer for internet radio and local music (mp3)“ with no luck.
I Expanded the filesystem in a first step, then activated my license and set up the System with the „Starter“ option.
After that I included an NFS share with some music and configured mpd to use it. Worked well as YMPD and an MPD Client show a filled database.
When I am trying to play some songs nothing works. I can see the following in /var/log/mpd/mpd.log
```
Oct 05 16:54 : client: [10] opened from 192.168.1.50:39182
Oct 05 17:05 : alsa_output: Failed to open "Max2Play ALSA Device" [alsa]: Error opening ALSA device "default:CARD=sndrpihifiberry" (snd_pcm_hw_params): Invalid argument
Oct 05 17:05 : output: Failed to open audio output
```
Any ideas what is wrong here. I tried to set up the HifiBerry with the free plugin and with the „Raspberry Settings“ plugin.

This is quite frustrating as I bought this bundle in the hope to have an easy to set up package with Max2Play …
Christoph premium

11. Oktober 2016 at 9:28 #23366

Hello Spaetzle,

Thanks for your request. Did you reboot the system after choose the HiFiBerry Digi+ in the HiFiBerry plugin menu?

Best Regards
Spaetzle premium

11. Oktober 2016 at 11:48 #23373

Yes I did reboot the Raspi.

As I tryed out many things I started again today:
Remark: Everything is in english althougt the interface shows that german is selected.
Now I opend a ssh connection to the PI and looked into /var/log/mpd/mpd.log. After stoping and restarting mpd with the webinterface I get the following output:
```
Oct 11 11:44 : client: [0] closed
Oct 11 11:44 : zeroconf: No global port, disabling zeroconf
Oct 11 11:44 : client: [0] opened from 127.0.0.1:43272
Oct 11 11:44 : alsa_mixer: Failed to read mixer for 'Max2Play ALSA Device': no such mixer control: Digital
```
aplay -l shows:
```
**** Liste der Hardware-Geräte (PLAYBACK) ****
Karte 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], Gerät 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
  Sub-Geräte: 8/8
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
  Sub-Gerät #1: subdevice #1
  Sub-Gerät #2: subdevice #2
  Sub-Gerät #3: subdevice #3
  Sub-Gerät #4: subdevice #4
  Sub-Gerät #5: subdevice #5
  Sub-Gerät #6: subdevice #6
  Sub-Gerät #7: subdevice #7
Karte 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], Gerät 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
  Sub-Geräte: 1/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
Karte 1: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi], Gerät 0: HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0 []
  Sub-Geräte: 1/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
```
The settings for MPD „Music Player Soundcard Settings“ in the Webinterface are:
Sound device: equal – equal
Audio Format: 192000:24:2
Mixer Device: hw:1
Mixer Controler: Digital

Any ideas what’s going wrong here?

Regards
Bernd
Christoph premium

12. Oktober 2016 at 11:50 #23386

Hello Spaetzle,

please try this. Go to the HiFiBerry menu. I think there is, at this time, the Hifiberry Digi/Digi+ the chosen sound card? Change it into none and save this configuration. After this, change it again into Hifiberry Digi/Digi+.

We have test it and this solves the problem for the moment. We are working on this.

Best Regards
Spaetzle premium

12. Oktober 2016 at 16:53 #23404

Hi Christoph
OK. It is doing a little more. I can not see an more errors. But there is no sound.
Is there a trick if I want to use the optical output. The PI is connected to the sound system with the optical output as I have no coax input at the sound system …
And as it seems I can not use the volume control of mpd. The controller with the client software I am using (gmpc) is unavailable.
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