Would love to see some cd/blu-ray audio playback in snakeoil

Since the Ubuntu 16.04 is EOL and not supported any more, I was thinking of upgrading it.

For me, the sound quality is the most important aspect of using Snakeoil in the first place, so I'm postponing the update to the latest Ubuntu version since there is no custom realtime kernel for it yet.

Because of this, the upgrade to 18.04 seems like the obvious choice, but I'm concerned about the sound quality after reading this two years old post from @agent_kith :
 

(27-Apr-2019, 08:53 AM)agent_kith Wrote: Also there's distribution upgrades (do-release-upgrade). In my setup, 16.04.x sounds better than 14.04. But 18.04.x seems worse than 16.04. I'm sure if I spend some time and change a few things, 18.04 with some yet to discover tweaks will sound even better than 16.04.

The HDMI and 3.5mm jacks are not showing up in snakeoil settings, only my usb dac when I plug that in.

I only ask as I may get a hdmi-i2s converter to try out i2s.

Hello,
it's been a while since I posted. I have a whole bunch of questions.

The first being, how do I play a CD in snakeoil?

I have installed a Blu ray cd player, just wondering how I use it? I have been using the most current version of mpd but I can change if needed.

Also the HDMI output and 3.5mm are not showing up either. I will start a different thread about that.

hi kith,

after the installation 1.2.0 then upgrade to 1.2.1, myMPD always show MPD disconnected, how to fix? please help.
I stored the music in the internal hdd which is /dev/sdb1/Music, the system is installed in /dev/sda1

update: other mpd clients work perfectly, e.g. cantata, Rigelian, & MALP