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"starts playing late" means that you missing the first seconds?

on some board the amplifier has to be "started" from the system (because it is using a art of power-save for the sound).

This will take up to 3 seconds where you will get no sound....and the system will shut off the amplifier after some seonds with a small "poff"-sound....

 

I did read about a "switch" in a config-file (like on WiFi powersave) - but I dont know it now from my mind.

Got this also on my OPi Zero....

What I mean is in this thread:

Put the following line at the end of /boot/cmdline.txt

snd-soc-core.pmdown_time=-1

OR
echo -1> /sys/devices/platform/soc/1c22c00.codec/cdc/pmdown_time 

Maybe that will help you recover the start of your sound?

 

Hmm there seems something changed:
 

root@opi-zero(192.168.6.99):~# echo -1> /sys/devices/platform/soc/1c22c00.codec/cdc/pmdown_time
/sys/devices/platform/soc/1c22c00.codec/cdc/pmdown_time: 
Permission denied

root@opi-zero(192.168.6.99):~# ls -l /sys/devices/platform/soc/1c22c00.codec/cdc/pmdown_time
ls: cannot access '/sys/devices/platform/soc/1c22c00.codec/cdc/pmdown_time': 
No such file or directory

root@opi-zero(192.168.6.99):~# ls -l /sys/devices/platform/soc/1c22c00.codec/cdc/power
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 29 19:16 autosuspend_delay_ms
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 29 19:16 control
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 29 19:16 runtime_active_time
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 29 19:16 runtime_status
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 29 19:16 runtime_suspended_time

Maybe we have to set the autosuspend_delay_ms to -1 ?

But also
root@opi-zero(192.168.6.99):~# sudo echo -1 > /sys/devices/platform/soc/1c22c00.codec/cdc/power/autosuspend_delay_ms
echo: write error: Input/output error

On 5/29/2020 at 7:20 PM, guidol said:

Hmm there seems something changed:
 

root@opi-zero(192.168.6.99):~# echo -1> /sys/devices/platform/soc/1c22c00.codec/cdc/pmdown_time
/sys/devices/platform/soc/1c22c00.codec/cdc/pmdown_time: 
Permission denied

root@opi-zero(192.168.6.99):~# ls -l /sys/devices/platform/soc/1c22c00.codec/cdc/pmdown_time
ls: cannot access '/sys/devices/platform/soc/1c22c00.codec/cdc/pmdown_time': 
No such file or directory

root@opi-zero(192.168.6.99):~# ls -l /sys/devices/platform/soc/1c22c00.codec/cdc/power
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 29 19:16 autosuspend_delay_ms
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 29 19:16 control
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 29 19:16 runtime_active_time
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 29 19:16 runtime_status
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 29 19:16 runtime_suspended_time

Maybe we have to set the autosuspend_delay_ms to -1 ?

But also
root@opi-zero(192.168.6.99):~# sudo echo -1 > /sys/devices/platform/soc/1c22c00.codec/cdc/power/autosuspend_delay_ms
echo: write error: Input/output error

 

Thank you, but these were not the solution.

my solytion is play "empty" file before wav, for example  aplay -d 1 /dev/zero && aplay test.wav