Hello all: Just wanted to let every one know that Office Depot has the Sound Blaster mp3+ on clearance. They are asking $29 or so. This is an external USB sound card. It's supported by alsa. A couple of years ago, I decided I'd like to put all my CD's on a linux file system. I could then build my own iriver or archos system. After doing some of the preliminary work, I discovered that the noise level of my built-in sound card was too high for comfortable listening. Also, recording was worse than terrible. A good friend Ken Lee (HEY Ken) told me that he was using a usb sound card. This got me to thinking. In my mind, this would remove the sound processing away from all that nasty RF. So, we'll see. I got my mp3+ last night; so, haven't had much time to mess with it. I've just played some test files. So far, so good. This unit also has optical audio in and out. So, when I hook it up to my adcom pre-amp, it will be digital all the way. I have high hopes that recording will be much better. (We'll see). Terry _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list