Hey, I have been using musicbox on my Raspberry B+ for a couple of weeks and it has been great. I have just received a HiFi Berry DAC+ and it does not seem to be working with it. Has anyone got it working?? Cheers, David

I would assume the required driver module snd_soc_hifiberry_dacplus is not yet present in the kernel used by pi musicbox (sudo modprobe snd_soc_hifiberry_dacplus will probably fail). Although the sound setup script (setsound.sh) doesn’t support the dac+ yet either. I think you are best off raising …

Great, thanks. Indeed sudo modprobe snd_soc_hifiberry_dacplus does not work. I have posted there.

To anyone curious about this issue, I managed to get it working: I think that the i2s setting on the musicbox interface was not working, so I had to check that /etc/modules was fine. Mine looks like this: #snd_bcm2835 snd_soc_bcm2708_i2s bcm2708_dmaengine snd_soc_pcm5102a #snd_soc_hifiberry_dac ip…

Good to hear. Someone already added a howto to the forum: [image] How to Pi Musicbox with a Raspberry PI B+ Pi MusicBox Hi Guys, I was looking for something more handy and ready-to-use regarding to an audiophile distribution for my new Raspberry PI B+. I went from Volumi…

Hi David, I managed to reproduce most of your steps. After the firmware update I now have the snd_soc_hifiberry_dacplus module. aplay reports the card found: card 1: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dacplus], device 0: HiFiBerry DAC+ HiFi pcm512x-hifi-0 [] The light on the hifiBerrt DAC+ is al…

Managed to get it running. See here: Will it run out-of-the-box on a RPI B+?

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woutervanwijk September 14, 2014, 4:07pm 5

Good to hear. Someone already added a howto to the forum:

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