Audio Output to DAC
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Pi Presents gives two options for outputting audio - HDMI or analogue. Is it possible to output audio through a USB DAC/sound card instead? I use one of my Raspberry Pis as a media server/player with audio output to a USB DAC. It has much better sound quality than the native analogue audio jack. I configure the audio ouput to the DAC through the Squeezelite audio player setup. Is this possible with Pi Presents? If not, can it be configured through the OS or perhaps added as a future enhancement to P Presents.
You could use this link to make USB your default audio output, don't know whether it works with Pi Presents or not. I will add a switch to Pi Presents which would use the USB stick configuration as it is out of the box. Will not happen immediately though.
http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/electronics/using-a-usb-audio-device-with-a-raspberry-pi/
Investigated this. USB audio cannot be used with omxplayer and hence not for playing video. Best way ahead is to configure Raspbian to use USB instead of analogue audio for mplayer. Since this is unlikely to be a selectable option per track I do not intend to add a selection option to Pi Presents.