Use volumio for the last couple years and always happy with it, also excited about the improved features from different version, good work!
Recently bought set of I2S Dac based on ES9038Q2M mobile chip, great value for the bucks, sound quality is excellent, best of all DoP is supported and there is a light indicating the status
Tested and verified DoP is working under Amanero combo384 to PC as expected but DoP won’t work under Volumio RPI3 - DSD light will not on and no sound output with Dop enabled, did some research so far I believe it is a driver issue that 9038 will not recognize the signal send out from Volumio/RPI
ess9038 and every other ic from ess sabre , does not have open source drivers. No player based on rasbian can have those drivers (since it needs them open source)
Yesterday I fired on Volumio (Rpi2) DAC ES9038Q2M
In the settings I chose the digi + pro hifiberry, audio resampling - target bi depth -32
all files are flickering (dts I’m not sure), but I still have a problem with spotify,
you can hear only the noise (in the rhythm of the song), in the right channel
Hi,
have you still issue with spotify? I can play music from flash disk, but not from Spotify. Same symptoms - noise in right channel. I found out this DAC have issue with 16bit format. If I enable resampling to 24bit, then I can play 16bit flac. It is possible enable resampling to Spotify plugins?
Hi yogilla/xlisec, try switching to DAC model “R-PI DAC” and reboot. Leave everything else untouched. No mixer, no resampling. DSD can either be “Direct” or “DoP”, both modes should work. Also ensure there’s only one i2s overlay in “/boot/config.txt”, i.e. “dtoverlay=rpi-dac”.
With this setup, ALSA (seems to) output i2s samples in “S32_LE” format exclusively. No issues with 16 bit FLAC, DSD, webradio, Spotify, whatsoever. Just give it a go, the board works fine here