I have installed Volumio on a mini pc with music files stored on a usb hard drive. I have a SMSL M500 dac connected to the mini pc via usb and an iFi USB Purifier 2. When playing DSD tracks, Volumio is sending PCM to the dac. I have Direct DSD set in Playback Options. Is there anyway of getting nat…

Thanks for your help. Installed the beta on a usb drive and it played dsd ok but it would not install to disk. I tried to do this twice. Therefore, I have reinstalled the current version and I will await a later release which will handle dsd playback to my dac.

DSD Playback Not Working

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patrickkfkan February 4, 2021, 9:51am 2

I would suggest trying the beta version of Volumio Buster on your mini PC.

The kernel that came with 2.861 is probably too old to support your DAC.