Greg Erskine wrote: 
> Hi retrohunter,
> 
> This looks like a lot more work than your original suggestion. We keep
> piCorePlayer small be excluding any type of GUI. You might be better off
> developing it using Rasbian. You need to get it working as is first,
> then modify it to suit your requirements.
> 
> Here's more information doing it the normal way -
> http://sound.westhost.com/project55.htm
> 
> regards
> Greg

Fair enough, however ameter is an ALSA plugin (like hw, plug, asym) and
not a GUI. You can write ncurses or GUI clients to monitor the VU levels
if you wish. In my case, I wanted to provide a digital signal through
GPIO and convert it to analog with a cheap DAC to drive mechanical
analog VU meters.

That being said, it bothered me that the Pi already had a "cheap" DAC
onboard that somehow could be tapped into. I tried using the dmix ALSA
plugin to simultaneously output to two sound cards but being that I'm
using a I2S DAC, the driver apparently doesn't support dmix. Then it
dawned on me... LMS supports syncing! Running two squeezelites on the
same Pi and syncing them on LMS did the trick! :D

Here's my rough setup that I did manually. Now I have to figure a way to
do this in a more graceful manner.

/mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce/squeezelite-armv6hf -n "piCorePlayer2onboard" -o
hw:CARD=ALSA -a 80:4:: -r 48000 -m XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:F6 &
/mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce/squeezelite-armv6hf -n "piCorePlayer2dac" -o
hw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry -a 80:4:: -r 48000 -m XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:F7 &

Let me know your thoughts.


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