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RE: It's even worse than that

Hi Nick.

Just try it. It'll take you not even 5 minutes to get it going. ;)

>> I don't understand why ecasound should sound better than mpd

You might have followed some of my earlier excursions.

To be able to utilize the rt-kernel potential you need a proper setup
on the system. Just having the kernel in place won't change anything.

1. You as a normal user have to have the permissions to apply rt priorities
2. The application should utilize the rt-scheduler SCHED_FIFO.

Since MPD evolution goes very slow, I doubt that they've done
something about that matter during the last two years ( or since
0.15). Perhaps I'm wrong here.
ecasound is build for lowest latency operation using that SCHED_FIFO
scheduler. And that makes the difference.

>> Also, why "format "44100:16:2"?

That's just an example. There won't be a header with the PCM stream.
As far as I recall you need a fixed setup per sample rate.


Advise: If you got access to the kernel config. try to avoid dynamic bandwidth allocation on USB. That should make an audible difference
on your DAC.


Cheers


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