Issues while connecting to my DAC

[rockymystic]

I am currently using the stock cable provided by audio gd. I have tested it on my windows laptop and it is working fine without any issues. I cant try MPD player since i dont have any preamp to control the volume( I am on a 2.1 configuration and the volume on my ampilifier  and subwoofer is matched, I am using the internal volume of the software to control for now).

You can add the following in the options field to adjust volume:

Code:

mixer_type <hardware, software or none>

Use software (as I'm pretty sure most USB DACs don't do hardware VC via the USB audio device).

Yesterday, i tried to play again but after a minute i started hearing pop/crackle noises while the songs while the songs were playing.. i had to shut the system shortly after as it could damage speakers.
I will try again in sometime and see if the noise or the mute situation continues  and will generate the diagnostics log 

This is indeed a strange one. Do you have another USB DAC to play around with? Any problems with that second DAC?

Hopefully you'd get what I'm getting at - try various options suggested above so we can better isolate what is causing this issue (i.e. is it Snakeoil OS, is it computer, is it DAC, is it cable, and so on). 

Prior to using the audio gd dac, i used another small usb  dac that was supplied by the glow audio one tube amp manufacturer, i had been using it for past 3 years and it had no problem at all. I used it till last week attached to the snake oil os installed laptop.  I will definitely try again probably this saturday.