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RE: It's even worse than that

Posted by nycparamedic on December 1, 2010 at 18:39:43:
"Actually it works very well if you just turn off all the mixer stuff and have the player go directly to the ALSA device. If your players insist on just going to the default device its really simple to reconfigure ALSA so the default device is your high quality music device. Once you do that nothing gets resampled unless the actual hardware can't handle the sample rate in the file.

John S."

I agree with this, and John's later posts in this thread. In my mpd.conf I have:

audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "Ayre QB-9"
device "hw:0,0" # optional

Nothing else needed and dmix is bypassed. Music Playes Daemon does have support for S24_3LE, so no need for plughw. It's very simple and works beautifully.

All this, of course, on a PC Engines Alix single board computer.