Berryaudio and Camebridge dacmagic

[joajan]

I have installed Berry Audio without any issue. Although, when i trying to set the mixer to my DAC, a Camebridge DacMagic, i can't get any sound/signal to the amp. I have used dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus for this DAC but it does not seems to work.
Perhaps it is easier to change the "/boot/config.txt" and add "dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus"

Please advise

Joajan Sweden

[varungujjar]

Setting dtoverlay from the Ui should work, ofcourse you can directly set it in config aswell

Let me know how that goes.

[joajan]

Hi
I have tried to change the "dtoverlay from the Ui" but have not find the right setting yet. Tried several settings but no signal, no sound or no progress. Will try more tomorrow when my wife is at work and i have the day off.

Joajan Sweden

[joajan]

Tried several (a lot) of combos related to dtoverlay and my Cambridge dac but have not suceded. Running Berryaudio througt the built in headphone connection on the Raspberry, whch works fine. One thing that is needed is to go in to dsp and change the gain to ~ 0 (or whatever you prefer). Otherwise, on my amplifier that i am using for berryaudio, a Sansui AU-505, whe volumelevel is all to low.

Going to compare the sound as i have different Raspberrys with different distributions but as Berryaudio has DSP i think that everyone can tweek the sound so it will fit.

Keep up the good work

Joajan Sweden

[joajan]

My earlier post i valid for Spotify through my Iphone. When playing radio there is no "low sound" problem

Joajan Sweden

[varungujjar]

Great! thank you for the update

Also to keep in mind:
By default i have set the Volume Control as Software (for minimal setups)
If you use a DAC that uses hardware volume do change it to hardware volume in Mixer Settings and set the volume control to 100% might be that the volume is too low because of that ?

[CharlieB]

Hi,

Firstly thanks for creating Berryaudio. I absolutely love the simple and intuitive interface.

I used to run RuneAudio with my Cambridge Dacmagic100 but it stopped working at some point.

I tried several available settings in the mixer but none of them seem to work. Is the Dacmagic100 something that could be added in future or should it work with the available options?

Thanks for your consideration.

[varungujjar]

Thankyou

Could you share the settings that you are trying to apply

Also if you are familiar with shell commands prompt could you copy paste what you see when you type. aplay -l and aplay-L

[CharlieB]

I see the Dacmagic100 listed by 'play -l' allright but it doesn't show in the Mixer options?

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Loopback [Loopback], device 0: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM]
Subdevices: 5/8
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: Loopback [Loopback], device 1: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM]
Subdevices: 8/8
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones], device 0: bcm2835 Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones]
Subdevices: 8/8
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 2: vc4hdmi [vc4-hdmi], device 0: MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac], device 0: HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 [HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 4: C2 [Cambridge Audio DAC100 USB 2], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0



pi@berryaudio:~$ aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
bluealsa
Bluetooth Audio
null_device
audio_out
default
output
hw:CARD=Loopback,DEV=0
Loopback, Loopback PCM
Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=Loopback,DEV=1
Loopback, Loopback PCM
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Loopback,DEV=0
Loopback, Loopback PCM
Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=Loopback,DEV=1
Loopback, Loopback PCM
Hardware device with all software conversions
sysdefault:CARD=Loopback
Loopback, Loopback PCM
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Loopback,DEV=0
Loopback, Loopback PCM
Front output / input
surround21:CARD=Loopback,DEV=0
Loopback, Loopback PCM
2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=Loopback,DEV=0
Loopback, Loopback PCM
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Loopback,DEV=0
Loopback, Loopback PCM
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Loopback,DEV=0
Loopback, Loopback PCM
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Loopback,DEV=0
Loopback, Loopback PCM
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Loopback,DEV=0
Loopback, Loopback PCM
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
dmix:CARD=Loopback,DEV=0
Loopback, Loopback PCM
Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=Loopback,DEV=1
Loopback, Loopback PCM
Direct sample mixing device
hw:CARD=Headphones,DEV=0
bcm2835 Headphones, bcm2835 Headphones
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Headphones,DEV=0
bcm2835 Headphones, bcm2835 Headphones
Hardware device with all software conversions
sysdefault:CARD=Headphones
bcm2835 Headphones, bcm2835 Headphones
Default Audio Device
dmix:CARD=Headphones,DEV=0
bcm2835 Headphones, bcm2835 Headphones
Direct sample mixing device
hw:CARD=vc4hdmi,DEV=0
vc4-hdmi, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=vc4hdmi,DEV=0
vc4-hdmi, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Hardware device with all software conversions
sysdefault:CARD=vc4hdmi
vc4-hdmi, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Default Audio Device
hdmi:CARD=vc4hdmi,DEV=0
vc4-hdmi, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=vc4hdmi,DEV=0
vc4-hdmi, MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0
Direct sample mixing device
hw:CARD=C2,DEV=0
Cambridge Audio DAC100 USB 2, USB Audio
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=C2,DEV=0
Cambridge Audio DAC100 USB 2, USB Audio
Hardware device with all software conversions
sysdefault:CARD=C2
Cambridge Audio DAC100 USB 2, USB Audio
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=C2,DEV=0
Cambridge Audio DAC100 USB 2, USB Audio
Front output / input
surround21:CARD=C2,DEV=0
Cambridge Audio DAC100 USB 2, USB Audio
2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=C2,DEV=0
Cambridge Audio DAC100 USB 2, USB Audio
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=C2,DEV=0
Cambridge Audio DAC100 USB 2, USB Audio
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=C2,DEV=0
Cambridge Audio DAC100 USB 2, USB Audio
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=C2,DEV=0
Cambridge Audio DAC100 USB 2, USB Audio
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=C2,DEV=0
Cambridge Audio DAC100 USB 2, USB Audio
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=C2,DEV=0
Cambridge Audio DAC100 USB 2, USB Audio
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
dmix:CARD=C2,DEV=0
Cambridge Audio DAC100 USB 2, USB Audio
Direct sample mixing device

[varungujjar]

Since your card is detected by the OS as CARD=C2,DEV=0 and its a USB device "dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus" will not work
In fact dtoverlay is not required

I have added a new entry to the mixers list.
Replace the attached mixers.json

mixers.json.zip

unzip before use.

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file in /home/pi/berryaudio/mixer/

1. Restart the pi
2. Go to Settings -> Mixers -> Cambridge Audio DAC100
3. Restart

This should work I guess, Let me know if this helps