piCorePlayer USB soundcard no sound

[anon2332]

Hello all!
I tried 8.1 picoreplayer in rpiZero W, but it did not connect to my wifi.
With 6.0 i got it working and running, but the cheap usb-soundcard does not work. It does work in standard rpi os.
I've tried hw:CARD=ALSA,DEV=1 and few other choises and disabled the hdmi, but still no sound.

Log shows:
[ 2.332643] usb 1-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using dwc_otg
[ 2.993030] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=1b3f, idProduct=2008, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 2.993047] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 2.993055] usb 1-1.1: Product: USB Audio Device
[ 2.993062] usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: GeneralPlus
[ 2.999460] input: GeneralPlus USB Audio Device as /devices/platform/soc/20980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.3/0003:1B3F:2008.0001/input/input0
[ 3.062992] hid-generic 0003:1B3F:2008.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v2.01 Device [GeneralPlus USB Audio Device] on usb-20980000.usb-1.1/input3


what to try next ?

[Paul Webster]

What does
aplay -L
show?

[Greg Erskine]

hi anon2332,

For your wifi issue see "Wifi does not work".

For your USB DAC issue see "Add a Topping E30 USB DAC". Change the name as appropriate in step 9.

Unless there is something really weird with your combination of hardware, I would expect your setup to be very simple, not requiring lots of unrelated changes.

regards
Greg

[anon2332]

Thank you for your help.,
Sound started working when i toggled off "use rasberry pi internal sound" from the web ui

[Greg Erskine]

Sounds like good luck rather than good management.

By default, the RPi0W has no default sound card to turn off. If you happen to plug in a HDMI screen you may get a HDMI sound driver loading as default??

A few years ago Raspberry Pi's called their sound card ALSA which was very confusing, now it is called Headphones, b1 and b2 depending on which Raspberry Pi.

I have been using the "3D Sound" USB sound card to test piCorePlayer and USB for many years now. Its has always worked for me.

Here's the "Output setting" More> help, showing the soundcard on my RPi.

For my 3D Sound USB sound card I click on "hw:CARD=Device,DEV=0"

See my 3D Sound USB sound card uses a card name Device, almost as confusing as calling it ALSA.

Available output devices (click to use):

hw: devices are normally the best choice, but try and decide for yourself:

default
plugequal
equal
hw:CARD=Headphones,DEV=0
plughw:CARD=Headphones,DEV=0
sysdefault:CARD=Headphones
hw:CARD=Device,DEV=0
plughw:CARD=Device,DEV=0
sysdefault:CARD=Device
front:CARD=Device,DEV=0
surround21:CARD=Device,DEV=0
surround40:CARD=Device,DEV=0
surround41:CARD=Device,DEV=0
surround50:CARD=Device,DEV=0
surround51:CARD=Device,DEV=0
surround71:CARD=Device,DEV=0
iec958:CARD=Device,DEV=0