Thank You Kev!!!
I wasted some time playing with various forms of the shairport command line, like:
Code:
shairport-sync -- -d "hw:0,0"
shairport-sync -- -d default
But no matter what I tried it just locked up and I had to Ctrl_C.
So I tried the "hw:" entry in the /etc/shairport-sync.conf file. From looking at "aplay -l", I'd think the USB adapter would be "hw:2,0" or "hw:2,1", but what works is "hw:0,0"... There is no card in my list showing "hw:0,0"!
So in /etc/shairport-sync.conf:
Code:
// Back End Settings
// These are parameters for the "alsa" audio back end.
// For this section to be operative, Shairport Sync must be built with the following configuration flag:
// --with-alsa
alsa =
{
output_device = "hw:0,0"; // 200225LA the name of the alsa output device. Use "alsamixer" or "aplay" to find out the names of devices, mixers, etc.
...
It's delicious, hard to believe it is streaming from my phone! A couple of my favorite soundspace test tracks:
Finale
Martha Argerich
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals
https://open.qobuz.com/track/519037
So unusual and exciting to hear a recorded piano allowed to fill the auditorium space instead of being closely mic'ed.
Yo Quisiera Amarla
Aventura - The Last
https://open.qobuz.com/track/40813277
The band is richly spread across the front stage, but the amazing part is the accent drum hits that pop out in depth all around the room.
Yes, I've spent my life in an unusual world of sound and vision. My dorsal stream (spatial) vision was destroyed by weird glasses as a child, so I hung onto what I believe is dorsal stream sound like a blind person would. Or like a hunting or hunted animal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-streams_hypothesis
Normal audio systems are optimized for the ventral stream, the recognition of speech and musical content. My unique system is optimized for the dorsal stream, the way we "feel" space and judge how our speaking voices are filling the room. (I'd love to have both, but can't justify the cost...)
http://www.psychoros.com/stereoFrame.html
Thanks again to all in this thread who helped make Qobuz convenient as well as delicious!
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