Raspotify connected but no sound

[aholloway17]

I recently in stalled the easy version of Spotify connect. While I can connect there is not sound. I am able to play and hear music from files on the Pi 3 B just not through Raspotify. It may be of note I am using the new DAC2 HD. Below is from aplay -l and service config for Raspotify.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: b1 [bcm2835 HDMI 1], device 0: bcm2835 HDMI 1 [bcm2835 HDMI 1] Subdevices: 4/4 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 Subdevice #2: subdevice #2 Subdevice #3: subdevice #3 card 1: Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones], device 0: bcm2835 Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones] Subdevices: 4/4 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 Subdevice #2: subdevice #2 Subdevice #3: subdevice #3 card 2: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplushd], device 0: HiFiBerry DAC+ HD HiFi pcm179x-hifi-0 [HiFiBerry DAC+ HD HiFi pcm179x-hifi-0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Description=Raspotify After=network.target [Service] User=raspotify Group=raspotify Restart=always RestartSec=10 PermissionsStartOnly=true ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -m 0755 -p /var/cache/raspotify ; /bin/chown raspotify:raspotify /var/cache/raspotify Environment="DEVICE_NAME=raspotify (%H)" Environment="BITRATE=320" Environment="CACHE_ARGS=--disable-audio-cache" Environment="VOLUME_ARGS=--enable-volume-normalisation --linear-volume --initial-volume=100" Environment="BACKEND_ARGS=--backend alsa" EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/raspotify ExecStart=/usr/bin/librespot --device hw:2,0 $BACKEND_ARGS --bitrate ${BITRATE} $CACHE_ARGS $VOLUME_ARGS $OPTIONS

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

Any assistance would be gratefully received,

Cheers,

Allen

[Callenberg]

Hello Allen, One thing that seems wrong to me, after I just had a quick look, is that --linear-volume should be --mixer-linear-volume i.e. VOLUME_ARGS="--enable-volume-normalisation --mixer-linear-volume --initial-volume=100"

Since the new version of librespot has changed some of it's option flags. Also check out this #293

Hopefully you will now get one step closer...

[JasonLG1979]

@Callenberg --mixer-linear-volume is not a valid arg for the version of librespot that is currently packaged with raspotify. In the issue you link to the OP replaced the packed version of librespot with a compiled version of librespot from the git dev branch.

librespot doesn't have a proper --help arg but if you call it without any args it will throw an error show you the available args and exit.

@aholloway17 Unless you've already changed it the problem is more than likely that the DAC you want to use is card 2. By default card 0 is the default which in your case is HDMI.

See https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify#troubleshooting Except you'd want to change it to 2 not 1.

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