Hi all, To be honest I'm posting this before investigating all possibilites myself, but i'm fast approaching the 'hugely frustrated stage'. How do I enable the spdif input on my audiophile 2496, please? A bit of googling suggested I should change the line in /usr/share/alsa/cards/ICE1712.conf from slave.channels 10 to slave.channels 20 which should enable input (and disable output since you can't have both at the same time on this card.) Correct? I'm looking at the envy24control mixer settings, and I've unmuted the spdif input channels and turned up the sliders, but no input is showing on the meters. Is there anything else I should be doing? I haven't got an .asoundrc, should I? thanks, Jordan.