How to get music playing with Phat Dac board

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I have got the raspberry pi zero W and bought the Phat Dac board from here. I used the setup instruction from the list of projects and for whatever reason I can’t get any audio output at all. Do I need to install some audio player.

Edit: I have installed pulseaudio which I saw on another thread, and also Audacious. Now music is playing but only for a few seconds for each track on a cd.

I get an error for every track it plays, saying Error playing file //path to /Music/CD/ music track.mp3

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I have a raspberry pi zero w and have bought the Phat Dac from here.
I was hoping that I could use it to play music from my NAS server.

Edit:
Since yesterday I have reinstalled the raspian os for the pi zero w, and then audacious thinking that would play music, but it wouldn’t play 1 track of music I copied to the music folder from my NAS media box. It did however play another or 2nd track to my speaker connected to the PhatDac phono socket.
The other thing I have done is to install the airplay software from the tutorial on another webpage

I’ve also installed both Audacious and pulseaudio to get this far.

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This sounds like an issue with whatever you’re trying to play, rather than pHAT DAC. I typically use mplayer or vlc to play audio and haven’t used Audacious (at least not on the Pi).

Have you tried running a basic speaker test, like: speaker-test -c2 -t wav

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Actually late yesterday, I installed Airplay using the guide on here, and when it finished it did a speaker test and sound was coming out of it.

Regarding the error when trying to play a CD track, this may have been the actual track that was at fault, and when played a different mp3 file it plays fine in Audacious.
Running the speaker-test worked fine as well.

Now music is playing, but it is only playing music which is on or in the Music folder on the pi zero. I was under the wrong impression that it would stream music from my NAS box, or at least that was what I thought it would do. And that was the reason I bought the pHAT DAC.

Thanks

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Can the pHAT DAC stream music or does have to be on the pi zero itself, in the music folder

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The pHAT DAC has no bearing on music streaming, it’s just an output device. There should be no reason why your Pi Zero couldn’t stream music from a network share- although sensible limits on bitrate would apply. It handles streaming from Spotify and other internet sources with no problems.

I’ve never set up network share streaming, though, since I don’t have any music stored locally to stream (Spotify is just too easy), so I can’t really help with that. There must be guides out there, though.

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Ok thanks , it looks like I’ll have to find how to stream music through the pHAT DAC, and I’ll look into Spotify.

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You might want to try:http://www.pimusicbox.com/

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Thanks,
but as Musicbox is an img and needs to be on an micro sd card, when it boots up the wlan0 link is not ready, and says Error: Timeout, check your network settings and is unreachable.

On the sd card which has raspian, there is a wireless lan.

Edit: sorted that now.