Multi Channels

[Julien Geneste]

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Hi,
I'm wondering if it's possible to have play the sound on more than two channels ? Is it related to Raspotify or sound configuration ?

[Jason Gray]

No. It's related to your sound system configuration, ALSA or Pulseaudio. Librespot (the binary that the Raspotify service runs) output's stereo audio. Whatever you're outputting that to does whatever it does.

[Julien Geneste]

Thanks for the quick reply, I tried something found on ALSA / Jack documentation but It makes raspotify crash when I'm trying to connect to it.

Tried to add this in asound.conf

pcm.!jack {
    type jack
    # If "mpv --ao:alsa ..." gives you this error:
    # [ao/alsa] Unable to set buffer time near: Invalid argument
    # uncomment the following to allow non-jack-aligned period size:
    #align_psize = 0
    playback_ports {
        0 system:playback_2
        1 system:playback_3
    }
}

pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "jack"
    hint.description "Jack Audio"
}

[Jason Gray]

Well if you don't have jack installed that'll happen? I know nothing about jack. You don't need jack to mirror channels. Here are the docs for configuring ALSA. It's a trial and error process, nothing I can really help you with unless I have the hardware in hand.

[Julien Geneste]

I know, I wanted to use Jack since our previous system was using it. But I'll start over, RTFM and make it work.

I was just wondering if there was any specials config for default multi-channels outputs.