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====== Playing local MP3s ======

You can play MP3's off of your USB key or if you've copied any to the **/mnt/storage** space with **btplay --start-daemon file.mp3**

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MP3's will play in the background. To kill **btplay** run **killall btplay**

Audio will play through the headphone jack at max volume, just plug in your favorite headphones! (Warning: it may be really loud!)

====== Playing remote MP3s! ======

You can also stream music with **btplay**, just stick a URL in there! Of course, you will have to have network capability up and running first

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Just as before, just plug into the headphone jack to verify its working. (Warning: it may be really loud!)

====== Splitting out the A/V ======

The headphone jack is not actually just audio - its actually Audio and Video. That means that you if you just plug headphones you'll notice some buzzing - thats you listening to the video! Now if you're in a Cronenberg film this is probably OK but for most of us its very annoying! There are two solutions. One is to split out the 3 signals into RCA jacks (with a camcorder cable) 

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and then recombining with an RCA Y cable (such as [[http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/YRA154/|a Y female-RCA to male 3.5mm]] or [[http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/CMR206/|this]]


**Note** our A/V cables split out the signals as such - **Red** is Video, **White** and **Yellow** are stereo line-level audio which is not what you would expect!

====== Using the Mixer ======

If you want to change the volume of the headphones, you'll need to run the audio mixer software **amixer**

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You can get and change the HeadPhone volume (**HP**) by running **amixer sget HP** and **amixer sset HP**

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To set the volume to 1/2 for example, do this **amixer sset HP 64**

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====== Speaker ======

The iMX.233 has a built-in mono speaker amplifier that can push up to 2W into a 8 ohm speaker! To use, connect the two speaker inputs into the **Spkr** 0.1" JST connection near the power jack. You can use either pin, they are not polarized as it is a mono output. 

The chumby is 'switched' by default - if you connect headphones into the jack, the speaker will turn off and vice versa.

If you want the speaker on even with the headphone plugged in, you can use **amixer cset**

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For example, the Speaker Playback Switch is off, so we turn it on with **amixer cset numid=4 on** to reactivate
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