Zero/hardware/audio

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USB Audio

Equipped with one USB speaker device, Radxa Zero can output sound.

Let's take playing a song as an example.

This is the hardware connection

Type-A USB speaker --- Type-C to Type-A USB Hub --- Radxa Zero

Firstly use command, aplay -l, to check the audio card number. Here is card 1.

root@zero:/home/rock# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: RADXAZERO [RADXA-ZERO], device 0: fe.dai-link-0 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: RADXAZERO [RADXA-ZERO], device 1: fe.dai-link-1 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: RADXAZERO [RADXA-ZERO], device 2: fe.dai-link-2 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: CD002 [CD002], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Secondly create file /etc/asound.conf and add the following content.

root@zero:/home/rock# cat /etc/asound.conf 
pcm.!default {
  type hw
  card 1
}

ctl.!default {
  type hw
  card 1
}

Finally use mplayer or aplay to play songs.

root@zero:/home/rock# mplay test.wav

or

root@zero:/home/rock# aplay -Dhw:1,0 test.wav

Troubleshooting

Post your issue on the forum: https://forum.radxa.com/c/zero