# No sound from Pirate Audio 3W Stereo Amp

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 22, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/no-sound-from-pirate-audio-3w-stereo-amp/12227 "2019-11-22T15:19:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![AuntDaisy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@AuntDaisy](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/AuntDaisy)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/no-sound-from-pirate-audio-3w-stereo-amp/12227/1 "2019-11-22T15:19:49Z")

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Very smart looking board and the display works well, but I can’t can’t get any sound from the speakers - what am I doing wrong?  
Tested on a RaspPi W with recent Raspbian (2019-09-26-raspbian-buster.img), and an earlier Raspbian (2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-full.img)

I can start a local MP3 file playing via Iris and the Pirate Audio display shows progress and responds to buttons (which sync with Iris and vice-versa). No sound with streaming radio (via M3U) or Spotify either.  
Tested with COM1601 mini speakers & Adafruit 3" speakers - both of which work on the HiFiBerry Pi Zero MiniAMP.

“sudo systemctl status mopidy” gives info while MP3 is “playing” without sound.

- Mixer volume set to 40
- Starting Mopidy audio
- Starting Mopidy backends: StreamBackend, M3UBackend, FileBackend
- Audio output set to “alsasink”
- Starting Mopidy core
- Starting Mopidy frontends: RaspberryGPIOFrontend, PiDiFrontend, IrisFrontend, MpdFrontend, HttpFrontend
- Starting Iris 3.42.2
- MPD server running at [::ffff:0.0.0.0]:6600
- HTTP server running at [::ffff:0.0.0.0]:6680
- Starting GLib mainloop

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**Author:** ![wildestpixel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@wildestpixel](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/wildestpixel)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/no-sound-from-pirate-audio-3w-stereo-amp/12227/2 "2019-11-23T15:03:08Z")

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I will hazard a guess that you need to disable the pi’s onboard audio in /boot/config.txt by making sure this one near the bottom appears as follows

#dtparam=audio=on

Which renders the onboard sound inoperable and makes the pirateaudio board the default for Mopidy

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**Author:** ![AuntDaisy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@AuntDaisy](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/AuntDaisy)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/no-sound-from-pirate-audio-3w-stereo-amp/12227/3 "2019-11-24T09:38:06Z")

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Brilliant wildestpixel, it works!

Internet streaming radio works perfectly :-) Echo / Alexa’s days are numbered! No more flaky BBC Sounds.