Re: NetBSSD audio - I want my mp3 !

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

Thanks to all those who helped, I've had a good intro to the
audio subsystems.

Enough to figure out that my existing uaudio (an ALC4080) is not
well supported, and that there is no physicalk output for the
internal video-with-audio, and my display doesn't have any way
to play audio arriving in the HDMI port.

So, to make a long story short, I ordered a cheap uaudio device
from Amazon.  Plugged it in, set audiocfg default, and eureka
it just worked!

Happy camper here!


On Mon, 10 Mar 2025, Paul Goyette wrote:

> OK, I'm lost.  My brain can't seem to wrap itself around all of the
> pieces...
>
> My hardware is pretty standard, just an ASUS "STRIX" motherboard and
> a sound bar with USB power and stereo jack connected to Line-Out.
>
> As near as I can tell, all of the various devices exist and are
> accessible.
>
> Here are the various settings I can find (and thanks to martin@ for
> helping to identify them).
>
> # audiocfg list
> 0: [*] audio0 @ hdafg0: NVIDIA product 0051
>       playback: 16, 2ch, 48000Hz
>       record:   16, 2ch, 48000Hz
>       (P-) slinear_le 16/16, 2ch, { 48000 }
>       (P-) slinear_le 16/16, 4ch, { 48000 }
>       (P-) slinear_le 16/16, 6ch, { 48000 }
>       (P-) slinear_le 16/16, 8ch, { 48000 }
>       (PR) slinear_le 16/16, 2ch, 48000-48000Hz
>
> dmesg shows
>
> [    11.134747] hdaudio0 at pci1 dev 0 function 1: HD Audio Controller
> [    11.134747] hdaudio0: interrupting at msi13 vec 0
> [    11.138653] hdaudio0: HDA ver. 1.0, OSS 4, ISS 4, BSS 0, SDO 4, 64-bit
> [    11.146465] hdafg0 at hdaudio0: NVIDIA product 0051
> [    11.154332] hdafg0: DP00 8ch: Digital Out [Jack]
> [    11.154332] hdafg0: DP01 8ch: Digital Out [Jack]
> [    11.158218] hdafg0: 8ch/0ch 48000Hz PCM16*
> [    11.177715] audio0 at hdafg0: playback, capture, full duplex, independent
> [    11.181622] audio0: slinear_le:16 2ch 48000Hz, blk 1920 bytes (10ms) for 
> playback
> [    11.181622] audio0: slinear_le:16 2ch 48000Hz, blk 1920 bytes (10ms) for 
> recording
>
> (There's also a hdaudio1 for the display/monitor, but not expected
> to work since there are no embedded speakers.)
>
> + mixerctl -av
> outputs.dacsel=DP00,DP01  { DP00 DP01 }
>
> Anyone got a clue on how I can make some sounds here?  :-)
>
> SIDEBAR: Most of my music is in Apple iTunes's mp4 format *.m4a (and
> a few *.m4p where the protection never got removed).  Anyone have a
> recomendation on what tool I could use to process these mp4's ?
>
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