> you > don't actually need a sound card for the server, only the client needs a > sound card. How do you get the live audio on to the server without a sound card? By streaming the audio data generated by a primary machine? As for soundcards under $50, I guess eBay might yield an emu10k1 card, such as the SBLive 512. That should be OK sound-quality-wise if we're talking about a 64k mp3/ogg stream. Cheers Daniel