Wayne, I havn't run into this type of issue using ALSA on a USB - the main issue that I've run into with ALSA is needing to specify the sample rate in /etc/asound.conf
But what I have run into with USB cards more often then not - when using them with Jack, they often only work reliably if I add the 16-bit mode flag at the end of the jackd line (the -S option), or the "force 16 bit" check box if starting Jackd with qjackctl. Lorne Tyndale > Hi, > > A bit of delay with this reply but I'm in the same situation myself. I > set up an Ubuntu 14.04 server a while back to serve as the database and > audio store. I'm in the process of adding a USB sound card to this > server and using it as the playout for out of hours (non "live"). > > I think caed is the problem. After making the USB card the default > device and adding it via rdalsaconfig; I get this when I start caed > (/var/log/syslog): > > Nov 6 14:54:20 ukriv002 caed: Starting ALSA Play Device rd0: > Nov 6 14:54:20 ukriv002 caed: Neither 16 nor 32 bit little-endian > formats available, > Nov 6 14:54:20 ukriv002 caed: aborting initialization of device. > Nov 6 14:54:20 ukriv002 caed: Starting ALSA Capture Device rd0: > Nov 6 14:54:20 ukriv002 caed: Neither 16 nor 32 bit little-endian > formats available, > Nov 6 14:54:20 ukriv002 caed: aborting initialization of device. > Nov 6 14:54:20 ukriv002 caed: unable to communicate with JACK server > Nov 6 14:54:20 ukriv002 caed: JACK general failure > Nov 6 14:54:20 ukriv002 caed: no connection to JACK server > Nov 6 14:54:20 ukriv002 caed: Found TwoLAME encoder library, MPEG L2 > encoding supported > Nov 6 14:54:20 ukriv002 caed: Found MAD decoder library, MPEG L2 > decoding supported > Nov 6 14:54:20 ukriv002 caed: using realtime scheduling, priority=8 > Nov 6 14:54:20 ukriv002 caed: cae started > > Is this the same for you? > > You can check it by restarting the Riv servers or killing caed manually. > > Wayne Merricks > The Voice Asia > > On 21/10/15 14:08, Nicholas Young wrote: > > It's configured as a standalone box with both rivendell and > > rivendell-server packages installed. > > > > Do I need to configure it manually if this is the case? > > > >> On Oct 21, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Stan Fotinos <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> If this is a client server setup does the IP in RDadmin in hosts match the > >> actually IP of the machine with the sound card? > >> > >>> On 21/10/2015 7:57 am, Nicholas Young wrote: > >>> That's exactly what I did. And even after a restart, I still couldn't see > >>> the card in rdadmin. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Oct 20, 2015, at 6:41 PM, Wayne Merricks > >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Did you run rdalsaconfig and select the card you want to use? > >>>> > >>>>> On 2015-10-19 03:49, Nicholas Young wrote: > >>>>> As previously mentioned, I'm trying to run Rivendell with the ALSA > >>>>> backend, and have configured it using the Tryphon repos on Ubuntu > >>>>> 14.04.02 LTS. > >>>>> > >>>>> After much back and forth with AudioScience (and a couple of hardware > >>>>> fixes) I'm finally getting up to speed. asound.conf has the various rd > >>>>> entries (as configured by rdalsaconfig — but now, I have a different > >>>>> problem entirely. > >>>>> > >>>>> Rivendell doesn't seem to recognize any of my ALSA-configured sound > >>>>> cards. I run rdadmin, select "hosts" and attempt to configure the > >>>>> audio card in question (an ASI 5211). Instead of being able to select > >>>>> the one I want, the card selection box is greyed out. > >>>>> > >>>>> rd.conf is configured correctly, far as I can tell anyway. 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