[Solved] iConnect crackling sound with USB soundcard

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[Solved] iConnect crackling sound with USB soundcard

Postby minscof » Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:59 pm

Hi,

I have an E-MU 0204 usb soundcard on Iomega Iconnect with ArchLinux 3.1.4-2-ARCH. The card is recognized but the sound is very bad : lot of crackles.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
front:CARD=USB,DEV=0
E-MU 0204
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=USB,DEV=0
E-MU 0204
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=USB,DEV=0
E-MU 0204
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=USB,DEV=0
E-MU 0204
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=USB,DEV=0
E-MU 0204
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=USB,DEV=0
E-MU 0204
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=USB,DEV=0
E-MU 0204
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output


If I use Pulseaudio, sound is better. I could be satisfied with this, but my player squeezeslave seems using directly Alsa and the sound is very bad.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')cat /etc/asound.conf
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}

ctl.!default {
type pulse
}

# Explicit PulseAudio device
pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}

ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}


Can you help me to have good sound with only Alsa, or to force squeezeslave using Pulseaudio ?
Thanks
Last edited by xenoxaos on Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:52 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Iconnect crackling sound with USB soundcard

Postby minscof » Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:33 pm

I found a parameter to have better sound.

I change the default rate in /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf and restart alsa
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '72c72
< defaults.pcm.dmix.rate 44100
---
> defaults.pcm.dmix.rate 48000
')

With a rate of 44100 sound is really better. I don't understand why this parameter was used in my configuration because i didn't use dmix pcm, i believed it, but I can hear the difference now ;)

I would like to understand my problem, so if someone can help me , thanks a lot.
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Re: Iconnect crackling sound with USB soundcard

Postby kmihelich » Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:57 pm

Other people on the forum have noted situations of having to change the ALSA config to get rid of sound artifacting, or to even hear sounds using USB cards. Seems to be a somewhat common practice. Remember, Arch does not auto-configure devices that get plugged in, it's always the user's responsibility to set things up.

PulseAudio is of course preferable in any situation you can use it, since it's designed as the One System to interface multiple usage of sound devices across applications with an API abstracted from the core sound system. If I remember correctly, only one application can tie up ALSA at any given time, whereas pulse can manage and play multiple application accesses (like a chime from your desktop playing at the same time you're listening to an mp3).
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Re: Iconnect crackling sound with USB soundcard

Postby timschuerewegen » Thu May 31, 2012 6:23 pm

Doubling the alsa dmix period size fixed the crackling audio on my iConnect.

I created

/etc/asound.conf

and added

defaults.dmix."USB-Audio".period_size 2048
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Re: [Solved] iConnect crackling sound with USB soundcard

Postby minscof » Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:23 am

I post this message to give the solution I found

I just need to add a file /et/asound.conf with this content

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "softvol"
}
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0"
period_time 0
period_size 4096
buffer_size 131072
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}
pcm.dsnooper {
type dsnoop
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0"
channels 2
period_time 0
period_size 4096
buffer_size 131072
rate 50000
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}
pcm.softvol {
type softvol
slave { pcm "dmixer" }
control {
name "Master"
card 0
}
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.softvol {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card 0
}
')

now my sound is good. I use logitech s150 usb speaker (integrated dac)

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