Sorry about the blank message. If you go onto eBay and search for "USB sound", a number of vendors sell this metal cased sound card that uses a cmedia chip set. It works under Linux, at least as far as the line in and out go. http://m.ebay.com/itm/USB-6-Channel-5-1-External-Optical-Audio-Sound-Card-Adapter-Laptop-Notebook-PC-/361502397040?nav=SEARCH You can easily slide the PCB out of the case for hacking purposes. I've only don't that to check what chip is used. I have used this usb sound card for scanner demod tap demodulation. DDSD and PDW for example. Original Message From: Martin McCormick Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 12:59 PM To: alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo Is there a reasonably-priced USB card with stereo Line input that works in Linux? I recently needed to buy one as the second sound card on a Dell tower running wheezy. A local store which fortunately has a good return policy sold me a SoundBlaster XG5 which looked like an excellent possibility until I discovered that it is so specialized for the gaming market that the only analog audio input is mono and microphone level to boot. It is a beautiful device and does have Line in and Line out but they are optical. Very neat but not what I could use. Back it went and they were very nice, only asking if it was broken and not giving me any trouble when I said that it didn't appear to be broken but would not work for the intended use. I ordered a FIIO Q1 which is advertised as a portable DAC and headphone amp. I think the person who recommended it to me forgot that I needed recording capability and so it arrived, sounds wonderful, but no recording capability. I'll keep it because it is not useless, but I wouldn't have bought it had I known it is another limited-appeal product. What I am doing is recording audio from two scanner radios so even a medioker sound card would probably be quite sufficient but capture capability is an absolute must. Is what I am looking for that rare these days? Thanks for any pointers on how to craft lawyerly search language that will land on USB sound cards that also record line-level audio in stereo. Many thanks. Martin McCormick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
