Possible to connect out of HDMI instead of USB?

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What Snoopy said.

HDMI and I2S are fundamentally different protocols so it wouldn't work anyway.

Note that HDMI has a 5V power pin, and depending on your DAC's implementation, feeding power to it might damage the DAC. I'm unsure what are the odds of this happening, but I wouldn't risk connecting.

Thx agent kith. I'm keeping my eye out on the automatic custom kernel. Really appreciate the great work.

Still in the midst of clearing up a room with 10+ years of things packed in it. 1/3 of the room (far end) is now claimed, but that just means 2/3 of the room is still stacked full of stuffs. Just got Internet working nowish. Gonna do some work today and tomorrow, but hopefully that'll clear the things out of the way and I can go back to the kernel builder again.

I'm already in music heaven so everything you do is a bonus. 🙂