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The device number in my case is 0. Here is the output of amixer -c 0:

Simple mixer control 'M2Tech Clock Selector',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
Playback channels: Front Left -...

OK, I got it working fine! Output was muted in ALSAmixer.

Thanks, everyone....

Please add M2Tech Hiface 2 in the list of properly supported USB devices for Vortexbox 2.1.

Here's some useful info from dmesg. Does this mean ALSA mixer is unable to set the volume, and thus I am getting no sound?

[ 19.665937] ALSA sound/usb/mixer.c:342 cannot get ctl value: req =...

Oops, spoke too soon! The frequency is now correct, but I am getting no audio sound.

Any suggestions on what I should be checking? The volume on the Vortex Box player is set to maximum.

Great, plughw:0,0 did the trick! Output below when playing a 24-bit 96khz file:

cat /proc/asound/card0/stream0
M2Tech M2Tech USB Audio 2.0 at usb-0000:00:12.2-3, high speed : USB Audio
...

I left it at Default. Is this incorrect?

I am trying to set up an M2Tech Hiface 2 USB to SPDIF converter with Vortexbox player.
I am running v. 2 still. The device is recognized properly, but 96Khz files are being played
at half the...

mapman4gis said:


I have my current music collection on an external hard disk drive.* Once I have Vortexbox up and running is it possible to attach the USB drive to the pc that Vortexbox is...

I used the advanced installer to create a 4 TB logical volume since I had two 2 TB SATA disks on my PC. I also decided to disable the internal RAID card, and use the 2 disks in a non-RAID fashion....

The advanced install worked great for me. I just installed the vortexbox on an old Sony Vaio Media center PC, which comes equipped with a Raid card.*

I have 2 2 TB SATA disks, which is probably...