[Voyage-linux] Status of XMOS USB 2.0 Audio Development Kit Testing?

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi Jon,


> Punky - How is the testing of the XMOS Development Kit going? It looks like that kit is the most economical solution 
> for playing 24 bit @ 192 kHz FLAC files.
>
> If you have tested it, how well does it work on ALIX boards?
>
It works very well.  My test bed is now repetitively playing music with it for 28 days without problem:

root at voyage:~# uptime
  05:19:47 up 28 days, 14:18,  1 user,  load average: 0.13, 0.05, 0.05
root at voyage:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
  0 [X20            ]: USB-Audio - XMOS USB Audio 2.0
                       XMOS XMOS USB Audio 2.0 at usb-0000:00:0f.5-1, high speed
root at voyage:~# ps -lef|grep mpd
1 S mpd       2822     1  7  80   0 - 18160 schedu Nov22 ?        2-00:54:34 /usr/bin/mpd /etc/mpd.conf

One drawback is that you can't use another USB port for external storage of music files.

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Regards,
Kim-man "Punky" Tse

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