Issue with Soft Vol. and Pandora

**mwebster** · 06-21-2012, 11:28 AM

When I bought my VBA and configured it, I had the ability to use Pandora and control the software volume of its sound card zones while using Pandora. This broke in an upgrade. When soft Vol. is checked for the players and Pandora is played, I just hear loud static - not music. Some details in these posts:

http://vortexbox.org/threads/3907-my...om-and-pandora

http://vortexbox.org/threads/3756-Vo...olume-Checkbox

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

**Macross** · 06-22-2012, 02:10 AM

Good luck... I have tried to resolve this issue as well.

**andrew** · 06-22-2012, 12:17 PM

Did you try using plughw instead of hw? This usually fixes this problem.

**Macross** · 06-22-2012, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by andrew

Did you try using plughw instead of hw? This usually fixes this problem.

Can you use plughw wile splitting the audio outputs as outlined in the posts above?

**mwebster** · 06-22-2012, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by andrew

Did you try using plughw instead of hw? This usually fixes this problem.

I haven't tried this and am not sure where/how to make this change. Do I do it from the web gui or from the vba command line and what commands would be necessary? I followed these instructions from you when I first configured my vba:
In order to get 4 channel sound working you need to do this from the VortexBox command line

cd /var/tmp
wget http://yum.vortexbox.org/fix/asound.conf
cp asound.conf /etc
reboot

Then you need to go into the VortexBox player GUI and create the 4 players

The first player has these setting

Name: Green
MAC: leave it blank
Audio Device: pcm.green
soft vol: checked

Then create 3 more players with the same settings for Pink, Gray, and Black. The audio device for each is pcm.color and the name is Color.

Thats it. Once you hit submit you should have your 4 players. You can connect your amp to the corresponding color connector on the back of the VortexBox.

**andrew** · 06-23-2012, 10:59 AM

You should be able to. Can you try it?

**mwebster** · 06-23-2012, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by andrew

You should be able to. Can you try it?

Could you please provide some detail about where and how to do this? I'm not sure of what to do to try plughw instead of hw?

**Ron Olsen** · 06-23-2012, 01:59 PM

1. Go to the VortexBox Player configuration page http://vortexbox/vortexbox-player.php

2. Enter "plughw" instead of "hw" in the Audio Device box (on my VBA, the entry is "plughw:1,0").

3. Click Submit.