Aplay without Sudo

Ah. I remember this one. If I remember its a permissions issue on the audio device. I think you can solve it by making the user and the devices groups overlap

here is my pi's /etc/group entry....

audio:x:29:me,www-data,pulse,root

I seemed to need all that to get audio to work OK for all the users needing to invoke it

Thanks, but that doesn't seem to have solved the problem. My pi user already had the audio group amongst many others.

Adrian

What do these say? aplay -l amixer contents

Also: ls -l /dev/snd/

In message <sqagcb$t4d$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, Chris Elvidge snipped-for-privacy@mshome.net writes

and

numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='PCM' ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---RW-,values=2,min=0,max=255,step=0 : values=255,255 | dBscale-min=-51.00dB,step=0.20dB,mute=0

and

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 140 Dec 26 14:00 snd

total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Dec 26 14:00 by-path crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 0 Dec 26 14:00 controlC0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 16 Dec 26 14:00 pcmC0D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 1 Dec 26 14:00 seq crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Dec 26 14:00 timer

Thanks

Adrian

Sorry: card 0: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac], device 0: HifiBerry DAC Can't help - no experience with this, only with on-board HDMI/Headphones

In message <sqapij$lh2$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, Chris Elvidge snipped-for-privacy@mshome.net writes

Thanks for trying.

Adrian

i get amixer contents numid=4,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Switch' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=off numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume' ; type=INTEGER,access=rw------,values=2,min=0,max=65536,step=1 : values=35000,35000 numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=on numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume' ; type=INTEGER,access=rw------,values=2,min=0,max=65536,step=1 : values=65536,65536

for what its worth - otherwise the same

I have this. which driver did you install

Ok, I think you haven't got the DAC set up right.

you need thi sin /boot/config.txt <snip loadsa stuff>

# Additional overlays and parameters are documented /boot/overlays/README

# Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835) #dtparam=audio=on

dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt dtoverlay=hifiberry-dac

So you need to disable onboard and use hifiberry-dac for that card

But I suspect you have done this..or aplay -l wouldnt show the device....Hmm...

Does the *file* you are trying to play have the right permissions?

This is almost certainly not the cause of your problem but I think you should bite the bullet anyway and make a new sd card with the latest RaspiOS Bullseye. Stretch is now 2 versions out of date and the Raspberry Pi Foundation (or is it the Inc.?) only supports the latest release. So that should cover you in case anything else pops up.

In message <sqaucr$ftp$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, The Natural Philosopher snipped-for-privacy@invalid.invalid writes

Not sure, but I installed using the instructions here :

tinyurl.com/2p8apjvx if the wrapping mangles the URL

Thanks

Adrian

In message <sqavff$ldq$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, The Natural Philosopher snipped-for-privacy@invalid.invalid writes

Already done

I've added the first, the second was already there.

Having made that change, I've rebooted, and still Device or resource busy, but works fine if I use sudo.

Yes, I'm running as "pi", and the file is owned/group by pi with rw-r--r--

Thanks

Adrian

That does not appear to be for your hardware.

I think that was just another line from his config file, not relevant to this issue.

So there is no fundamental issue with missing drivers.

Hmm.

It looks like somehow the /dev/snd perms are wrong, but I am struggling to see what difference your setup is from mine

I tested it and I can play with myself as the user.

$ ls -l /dev | grep snd drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 140 Dec 9 13:42 snd

$ ls -l /dev/snd total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Dec 9 13:42 by-path crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 0 Dec 9 13:42 controlC0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 Dec 9 13:42 pcmC0D0p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Dec 9 13:17 seq crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Dec 9 13:42 timer

$ grep audio /etc/group

audio:x:29:me,www-data,pulse,root

that's my setup that works.

I think I had to add myself to get it to work from my user command line, and www-data to get it to work when invoked by the apache webserver, which is how I control the sound system...or else write a setuid program...

See if yours differs at all.

I think it is...

but can't find out why.. oh it disables bluetooth and is recommended somewhere for better wifi, which I had issues with.

My bad.

Anyway if I can get Adrian to a working config by duping mine, it's a result.

In message <sqcgns$740$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, The Natural Philosopher snipped-for-privacy@invalid.invalid writes

Times and dates aside, my /dev/snd appears to be the same as yours. Oh hang on, there is a difference. The four entries with permissions starting "c" all have permissions of crw-rw----+

The audio group is :

audio:x:29:pi

I only need it to work for the pi user, so that should be OK.

Thanks

Adrian

Curious. I got the hardware from PiHut, and that was the site that they gave for the setup.

Adrian