Transclusion: Debian: CL-SOM-iMX7: Analog Audio

Use aplay -l to list all sound cards and digital audio devices registered on the system:

root@cl-rootfs:~# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: clsomimx7 [cl-som-imx7], device 0: 308a0000.sai-wm8731-hifi wm8731-hifi-0 []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Analog Audio Playback

In order to play back a sound file make use of the aplay application.

• aplay -L can be used for listing of all pcm devices.

Here is a sample output of aplay -L command:

root@cl-rootfs:~# aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=clsomimx7
    cl-som-imx7, 
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=clsomimx7
    cl-som-imx7, 
    Default Audio Device
dmix:CARD=clsomimx7,DEV=0
    cl-som-imx7, 
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=clsomimx7,DEV=0
    cl-som-imx7, 
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=clsomimx7,DEV=0
    cl-som-imx7, 
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=clsomimx7,DEV=0
    cl-som-imx7, 
    Hardware device with all software conversions

The next command can be used for audio play back:

root@cl-rootfs:~# aplay -D sysdefault <wav-file>

Audio Input Settings

CL-SOM-iMX7 provides an audio capturing feature from either Mic or Line In input sources. alsamixer or amixer can be used in order to switch between these inputs.

Mic

• alsamixer

Capture Volume => 100

Line Capture Switch => off

Mic Capture Switch => on

Input Mux => Mic

• amixer

amixer cset numid=1 65536
amixer -c 0 cset numid=3 31,31
amixer -c 0 cset numid=4 0
amixer -c 0 cset numid=6 1
amixer -c 0 cset numid=14 1

Line In

• alsamixer

Capture Volume => 100

Line Capture Switch => on

Mic Capture Switch => off

Input Mux => Line In

• amixer

amixer cset numid=1 65536
amixer -c 0 cset numid=3 31
amixer -c 0 cset numid=4 1
amixer -c 0 cset numid=6 0
amixer -c 0 cset numid=14 0

Sample Audio Recording

As soon as the correct input values have been set, audio signal can be captured. Here is a sample command that shows the arecord usage for capturing audio signal from the selected input line.

root@cl-rootfs:~# arecord -D sysdefault -d 10 -f dat -t wav /tmp/out.wav