HiRes for local files available?

Q&A
1

I digitalized some LP’s on Audacity and saved them in high resolution (192 kHz). Now I’m wondering, if it is possible, to play them in such a high resolution on Mopidy. My web and documentation search for HiRes configuration in Mopidy did not give any solution, except on some Mopidy extensions (qobuz and tidal). Is there a possibility to configure this in Mopidy? My DAC should be able to handle HiRes.

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My Mopidy setup is „Vanilla“, that means I just installed sudo apt install mopidy and the extension Mopidy-Local.

My audio config looked like this:

[audio]
mixer = software
mixer_volume = 50
output = autoaudiosink
buffer_time =

To play HiRes on Mopidy I had to install the package alsa-utils and add the following line to the audio configuration:

output = alsasink device=plughw:0,0

To figure out which number to put after plughw you can show your sound card with:
cat /proc/asound/cards which in my case was number 0 (if it is e.g number 2, then its plughw:2,0)
Make sure, that the DAC is connected and powered on.

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [ZD3 ]: USB-Audio - Fosi Audio
ZD3 XMOS Fosi Audio ZD3 at usb-1c1c000.usb-1, high speed

Now the display on my DAC shows the correct samplerate on each track. :slight_smile: