Handy bash scripts for alsa and mpd

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Stories about handy scripts for alsa and mpd as published on https://gitlab.com/sonida/mpd-configure.

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mpd-monitor: realtime monitor of an audiostream from source, through mpd, to alsa and your DAC

Dear fellow audio enthusiast, Today I published a first draft of mpd-monitor, a minimal load and realtime monitor of an audiostream as handled by mpd. A screencast says it all: Details and documentation are available at the gitlab repository: https://gitlab.com/ronalde/mpd-monitor/. When you experience bugs or issues, which will be the case, please submit those in the gitlab project. I would like to hear your thoughts. Happy list

ronalde

September 4, 2019

alsa-capabilities: reveal formats and sample rates your USB DAC supports

Hi, For your convenience (and mine) I've created the `alsa-capabilities` script, which shows the available alsa interfaces for audio playback in (or connected to) your linux computer, including USB DAC's, and the digital audio formats and sample rates each sound card or external USB DAC supports. You can run it straight from the web, by copying and pasting the following command in a terminal screen: bash <(wget -q -O - "https://lacocina.nl/alsa-capabilities") ## or bash <(cur

ronalde

January 13, 2016

mpd-configure: generate a bit perfect mpd configuration with a single command

Hi there, All those new (and maybe even older) to music player daemon (mpd), linux and alsa, I've published a free script which with a single command generates a configuration file for mpd, which turns it in to an bit perfect music streamer. The only requirement is that you have a working linux installation with mpd installed. After opening up a terminal screen, paste the following commands to generate and display a mpd configuration. When multiple audio cards (including USB DACs) are fo

ronalde

January 13, 2016

How to setup a bit-perfect digital audio streaming client with free software (with LTSP and MPD)

Inspired by Bit-perfect audio in Linux at 88.2 and 176.4 now possible I created a setup at home which I share at How to setup a bit-perfect digital audio streaming client with free software (with LTSP and MPD). In short, my wanted setup had the following requirements: having bit-perfect audio for all digital formats accepted by my DAC having the freedom of only using free software having the freedom of only using open non patent encumbered file formats having the freedom t

ronalde

November 3, 2011

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