I updated my Raspberry Pi 4 which I use for playing music with the great, free and open source MPD server.
After reboot it stopped playing music. ;(
The cause was this update in May/June 2020, due to a change in audio configuration. MPD was still working but the sound was now not routed through the HifiBerry soundcard, but through the audio/headphones, simply because a new HW card was defined: headphones/analog audio out.
The solution was easy.
aplay -l shows the Hifiberry the third card instead of the second, the new headphones was now the second.
$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: b1 [bcm2835 HDMI 1], device 0: bcm2835 HDMI 1 [bcm2835 HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 4/4
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
card 1: Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones], device 0: bcm2835 Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones]
Subdevices: 4/4
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
card 2: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac], device 0: HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 [HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0All I had to do is to edit /etc/asound.conf and increase 1 to 2:
pcm.!default {
type hw card 2
}
ctl.!default {
type hw card 2
}Restart MPD and everything was working like before. 😉
sudo systemctl restart mpd