#SCHIIT DRIVER BITPERFECT SOFTWARE#

Installed MPD music server and Gnome Music Player Client from the Ubuntu software manager. **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****Ĭard 0: Intel, device 0: ALC272 Analog Ĭard 1: hiFace, device 0: hiFace :/usr/local/bin/snd-usb-asyncaudio-master# aplay -l

#SCHIIT DRIVER BITPERFECT HOW TO#

Need to hit google to figure out how to get it to load on boot. snd-usb-asyncaudio.ko and a lsmod to make sure it was there. Building it was as simple as typing 'make' in a terminal window in the command line, leaving me with a snd-usb-asyncaudio.ko kernel module. Downloaded and compiled the kernel module from. Added the old gnome interface, VLC, and some other software that I hope wouldn't affect getting this running. Started with a recent load of Ubuntu 12.04 with the 'extras' box checked. I have my laptop sending tunes to my DAC via the HiFace and it sounds good enough that I'd be really surprised if it wasn't bitperfect. I'd be interested to know how well the orignal hiface functions under Linux. I assume that now you have compiled the hiface driver you have checked the correct hiface sound module 'snd-usb-asyncaudio' is being loaded on boot. Then you should be sure of picking the correct ALSA output device in your music player of choice. As shown in the post I've linked to, this means using the 'aplay -l' command in a terminal. The key is to determinw how ALSA identifies your hiface device. Knickerhawk has linked to a MPD ref, but there are simpler music players to get working on Linux such as deadbeef which is a bit like Foobar2000. I just posted about this problem in this forum. I wish I were knowledgeable enough with Linux to understand it better, as I'm struggling now with getting a Linux-based server (Synology) to work with a hibit DAC (Emotiva XDA-2). Is there a useful FAQ somewhere? Driver docs?Ĭheck this out: Configuring MPD for Bit Perfect Playback with an external DAC « Init Perhaps that will get you started. If someone would be kind enough to offer suggestions or point me to information on Linux music players and also info on how to connect them to the async driver it would be hugely appreciated. I'm not sure where to start looking for bitperfect players. So I installed Ubuntu 12.04, downloaded the asynch driver, compiled it, installed it, and now I'm staring at the computer wondering what's next.

#SCHIIT DRIVER BITPERFECT WINDOWS#

I've got the old Hiface which I was using on Windows with Foobar2000, but as pretty much everything in my house is Linux, I figured it would be a good time to make the move off windows since I had to reformat/reload. First post - The news on the HiTech driver might actually move me more seriously into computer audio so I figured this would be a good community to join.

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