Re: USB soundcard advice

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I got 2 usb sound cards, one is a 5.1 and work with the new .31 kernel out of the box (even 5.1 spdif trought the optical out), it's a generic chineese sound card with CMI chipset, I bougth for my Home Theater.
Search for USB external 5.1 sound card on ebay, it's a blue or orange little case.
like this http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-6-Channel-5-1-External-Sound-Audio-Card-PC-Laptop_W0QQitemZ300361484591QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45eef0892f#ht_3251wt_968


And I purchased an UCA-202 (the best snd card for this price) for my 2 speaker stereo, it's flawless and sound is much better than any pci snd card or onboard i've listened.

The only problem with linux is 96khz / 24bit support, but if you stay with 16bit/44khz I don't think you will be in trouble.


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2009/11/3 Felix Pfeifer <pfeifer.felix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi,

> USB Audio is a standard.
Sadly this is only true for usb 1.x. Most usb 2.0 audiocards don't
work under linux.
I am not sure if there is even 1 ^^ (Edirol ua101's playback is glitchy)

Felix


2009/11/3 James Shatto <Shadow_7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:42:48 +0100
> "Y.A. Bolawy" <bolawy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like some advice on a USB soundcard. The reason for getting one is
>> that I'd like to have good quality sound on all the computers I use or
>> will use. The quality should be good enough to allow speech
>> recognition. Of course, that is possible to some extend with any
>> soundcard, but if the quality is low it has a big impact.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the better the quality of the cards, the less standard
>> compliance they seem to be. At least that seems to be the underlying
>> message of everything I've read so far.
>
> USB Audio is a standard.  As long as the box says class compliant, it should work out of the box in linux.  Only one caveat though as it wont default to card 0 and be your default card.  Since you probably have a motherboard with onboard sound.  Configure accordingly.  I have a USB M-Audio Mobile Pre and it works fine.  Although web browsers don't seem to use it properly even though I have it configured to card 0.  I've never had a problem recording from it though.  Not really the best audio option, but loads better than most stock soundcards.
>
> HTH,
> James
>
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