From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kai Vehmanen Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 19:56:19 +0000 Subject: Re: Sound card with S/PDIF input (and output) wanted Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Kristian Soerensen wrote: > It puzzles me that no more people are interested in using Linux for MP3 > encoding and recording purposes. Maybe the market just haven't caught up > with the demand yet. I'm going to use that card to replace CD's, LP's etc. Well, I think most people just rip the tracks straight from CDs. It's by far the easiest way to go. Also, you can use a CD-burner for digital output (slow, but works). When it comes to recording, 16bits at 44,1kHz just isn't enough. I'd really like to see a reasonably priced, 20bit/48kHz(or more) card with Linux support and digital io-jacks. But I guess I'm going to have to wait for long... It's funny how slow the soundcard development has been when compared to other computer components. I'm now using a GUS MAX and a AWE64Gold for my recording work. Although GUS is at least two or three years older than the AWE, it can handle 16bit full-duplex while AWE64Gold can't (!). Of course there are the overly-priced pro-cards, but they can't be used as an excuse forever. -- Kai Vehmanen ----------------------------- CS, University of Turku, Finland : email mailto:kaiv@wakkanet.fi : projects, home page, etc http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ : ambient-idm-rock-... mp3/ra http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/sculpscape.html