Building a linux based music server, decision tree and installation recepie

[phofman]

Pulseaudio can be easily told to ignore a specific soundcard. Typically a quality soundcard would be used for playback directly via alsa, and the onboard one for skyping/teaming via PA.

I have never seen PA overwriting alsa configuration.

 

[more10]

This quote uses false logic. It also uses dramatic wording. I would not use this to make a decision on a distribution.

I tried installing some Ubuntu flavour and installed mpd using the familiar

# apt-get install mpd

I have learned to love the debian installer. Much more gentle than the pacman

# pacman -S mpd

What does the -S even mean?

However, the Arch pacman installation results in an mpd about two year younger.

If I find a bug in mpd, I don´t want to compile the fix or wait for it two years.

Mårten

 

[billshurv]

English is not my native tounge. I really like the response I got. But if we are going to get the not so nerdy out or their comfort zones using Windows or even worse Apple, we need to share our experiences.

Ah fair enough. I installed my mpd 5 years ago so cannot remember what exactly I did beyond apt-get install mpd.

 

[more10]

I still have a problem with usb soundcard being powered on/off before/after playing. Causing a thump in my speakers.

 

[more10]

I still have a problem with usb soundcard being powered on/off before/after playing. Causing a thump in my speakers.

It was USB kernel autosuspend. Fix it like this:

21. Disable USB autosuspend
First check that autosuspend is active:

# cat /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/autosuspend
2

Then retrieve the current parameters

# cat /etc/default/grub | grep LINUX_DEFAULT
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3"

Then add "usbcore.autosuspend=-1" to the current value:

# echo 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 usbcore.autosuspend=-1"' >> /etc/default/grub
# update-grub
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found theme: /usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-5.4-x86_64.img
Found initrd fallback image: /boot/initramfs-5.4-x86_64-fallback.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4-rt-x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-5.4-rt-x86_64.img
Found initrd fallback image: /boot/initramfs-5.4-rt-x86_64-fallback.img
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin
done