Record sound from M-Audio Firewire Solo input with S/PDIF

Hey there, I am using a m-audio firewire solo and connect it to my mac mini 2013 with firewire cable. If I try to record sound from my guitar, it is ok, however the sound from S/PDIF input cannot be recorded. I can see the sound signal from the mac input preference, however it just cannot be played or recorded. I have searched through the forum and found some people also have the same problem but just cannot solve it. Does anyone have some idea? Thanks.

Have you selected the correct Input pair in a stereo Logic channel strip? Standard s/pdif is a stereo signal.
Also, the M-Audio device may have to be set to slave mode as the incoming digital signal will have to become the master digital clock for the M-Audio unit.
The M-Audio unit should probably be set to 48kHz, it's doesn't do 96hHz does it?

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Hello everyone. I hope someone can help me. I recently bought a new mac mini and M-Audio Firewire Solo to record music. I'm new at recording so I have no idea what to do.
The problem is when I record playing the guitar, the sound is so low, I can barely hear the guitar playing when I play it back. I turned the gain to maximum level and I still can barely hear the guitar record. I know it's recording because I can hear the guitar when I play the record back, but the sound is way too low.
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When I play the guitar, you know the bar that goes green on garageband (not sure what it's called)? Even if I strum really hard, the green never goes up past 1/4 of the bar. When I'm using the mic and speak a bit loudly, I can see that bar turning red. So it seems like it's not reading the input properly, but really I'm not sure, so hopefully you'll be able to help me
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When I use the guitar (channel 2) it does not work.
(Note that, if I select stereo and play the guitar it works, but only records in one stereo channel and I want it to just record mono).
(Also note that I can get it to work in garage band where, for inputs you have the options of 1/2 stereo, 3/4 stereo, 1 mono, 2 mono, 3 mono, or 4 mono - all I have to do is select 2 mono and I can record from the guitar using mono).
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I could save a lot of backstory if the person reading this is already familiar with M-Audio FireWire Solo. It's an external Firewire interface for audio recording. It has two inputs on the front. One XLR (for my microphone) and one 1/4 inch audio in (for the guitar).
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