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Expand Up @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ The installation and setup of Shairport Sync is straightforward on recent Linux

In this brief document will be listed some problems and some solutions.

Before starting, ensure that your software is up-to-date.

### WiFi adapter running in power-saving / low-power mode

**Problem**
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- Quirky USB DACs (already known to be problematic on the Raspberry Pi more info available [here](https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/usb/README.md#knownissues)
For more discussion on this issue see [issue 167](https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync/issues/167) or read on for the quick fix!

**Solution**
**Possible Solution**
To get nice smooth audio first check the details of your USB DAC by either using 'aplay -l' which will give you output something like this:
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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
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This will then be used by default by Shairport-Sync and any other applications using alsa.

Note that some distributions (such as Volumio 2) don't use an asound.conf file by default, they instead specificy the hardware details directly in '/etc/shairport-sync.conf' and '/etc/mpd.conf' files so some more in depth modification is needed to override this.
Note that some distributions (such as Volumio 2) don't use an asound.conf file by default, they instead specificy the hardware details directly in '/etc/mpd.conf' files so some more in-depth modification is needed to override this.

(Note: not tested by Mike B.)

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