Used Topping D10s - keeps losing the USB - connection and reverts to laptop speakers
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rwnano
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root@rw-ThinkPad-T560:/home/rw# apt update
Hit:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonaski/strawberry/ubuntu eoan InRelease
Hit:3 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable InRelease
Hit:4 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan InRelease
Hit:5 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-security InRelease
Hit:7 https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian jessie InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
root@rw-ThinkPad-T560:/home/rw# apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@rw-ThinkPad-T560:/home/rw# apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@rw-ThinkPad-T560:/home/rw#
Is it connected to a USB 3.0 port? USB 3.0 port can supply more power
rwnano
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Yes, let me do this and try again.
rwnano
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Yes. Will try on other laptops blue ports and revert
Yes. You have no update because 19.04 is end of life and will not receive any new updates. See if you can install a LTS version. Preferably 22.04. Mostly likely that will solve your problem and also you will be able to install strawberry which is depending on newer versions of libraries.
rwnano
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Have connected it to the USB port right now on my Thinkpad T560, no music is playing, it shows 44.1 PCM on the display.
See this table. Next time don't install odd numbered ubuntu releases. They die very soon and stop receiving updates
Ubuntu Website release cycle page
List of releases
Ubuntu Website release cycle page
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That is odd. just a stupid question. Have you selected the output device?
Run the command
aplay -l
It will tell you if the OS has recognized your DAC
rwnano
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how do i install the 22.04 or 20.04? using a fresh USB flash drive, put the ISO in it and flash my HDD?
rwnano
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root@rw-ThinkPad-T560:/home/rw# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC293 Analog [ALC293 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: D10s [D10s], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
root@rw-ThinkPad-T560:/home/rw#
44.1 PCM IS STILL SHOWING ON MY DAC!
One way is to download the ISO from ubuntu site and burn it to the usb flash drive and boot from it. It will prompt you with steps to upgrade it.
The other is do do dist-upgrade or run the do-release-upgrade. See this post.
How can one upgrade Ubuntu 19.04 to 20.04?
With the new release of 20.04 LTS. How can I upgrade my 19.04 to this newest version? Or do I have to upgrade to 19.10 first?
rwnano
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card 1: D10s [D10s], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
It is recognized by ALSA. It means your dac is working. However getting pulseaudio to output it to this device is another thing.
PCM is showing on your dac because that's what pulse audio is doing. For getting good quality audio playback, I always disable pulseaudio because pulseaudio resamples to default 44.1 PCM.
You can set the output device by running the program pavucontrol. If it is not there, you can install it using apt-get. But mostly it comes preinstalled.
Let us get the OS version issue sorted first.
rwnano
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I'm on it - OS version issue.
For the upgrade process to proceed you should either
enable the universe component in /etc/apt/sources.list or remove
python-minimal, python-dev, libpython-dev, libpython-stdlib
I think this will be the most painless way to upgrade. It is from the link I provided earlier. I don't use ubuntu myself, have been a fedora user since 2003 and so I can't confirm it. But the document seems to be correct.
www.howtogeek.com
How to Upgrade to the Latest Version of Ubuntu
You can upgrade from one Ubuntu release to another without reinstalling your operating system. If you’re running an LTS version of Ubuntu, you’ll only be offered new LTS versions with the default settings—but you can change that.
www.howtogeek.com
rwnano
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as we type, am upgrading Ubuntu, we'll fix this yet!
also install strawberry and cantata from the ubuntu software graphical menu itself. If you use Ubuntu's own software menu, it should pull the strawberry player from the ubuntu repository.
If you use strawberry, you can bypass pulseaudio and directly send the sound to the DAC. The OS volume control will become inoperative however. But you will be able to control the volume in the strawberry client itself.
rwnano
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UPDATE: WINDOWS!
I HAVE A WINDOWS SYSTEM AS WELL, ..it's actually dual booted with the Ubuntu partition on the same Thinkpad T530. So..same hardware same USB ports as earlier. SO LOGGED INTO WINDOWS 10/11 AND THEN INSTALLED THE TOPPING DRIVER AND AM RUNNING A PLAYLIST FROM THAT.
To test whether the issue may be with Ubuntu and how it deals with the Topping USB DAC.
Just started the music, five minutes in so far so good.
Will be playing music for a few hours and reporting back as to how the stability is with windows.
I HAVE A WINDOWS SYSTEM AS WELL, ..it's actually dual booted with the Ubuntu partition on the same Thinkpad T530. So..same hardware same USB ports as earlier. SO LOGGED INTO WINDOWS 10/11 AND THEN INSTALLED THE TOPPING DRIVER AND AM RUNNING A PLAYLIST FROM THAT.
To test whether the issue may be with Ubuntu and how it deals with the Topping USB DAC.
Just started the music, five minutes in so far so good.
Will be playing music for a few hours and reporting back as to how the stability is with windows.
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