Volume issue on Douk U4 DAC

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Hi

Myself and a couple of friends are using the Douk U4 DAC which is stupidly cheap but excellent within its limitations.

We are having one issue using it via the UPNP/DLNA option in Ropieee where the volume is set very low and there doesn’t seem to be a way to adjust it. Apparently some other distributions allow access to alsamixer which allows it to be increased again but that’s not possible with Ropieee for understood reasons. The Force Volume option didn’t seem to sort it.

Any ideas anyone?

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Can you send me feedback?

Thanks

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Will do as soon as I can trigger it again

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My friend sent feedback under reference bf7d0c80da0fbc91.

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Just to let you know the USB input on the Douk is handled by a PCM2704 chip

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I think that the UPnP player is not controlling the hardware volume control this USB DAC has…

Does it work with Roon?

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It does - if I set it to Device Volume in Roon the control changes it as expected.

I suspect you’re right - it’s an operating foible between the DLNA player and the DAC.