Before spending hundreds, I'd look into spending about $50 for a Trident 4DWave. The ALSA support is great, and you can help show your support for a company that released their hardware specifications so good Linux drivers could be built.
Sean On Wednesday 17 January 2001 11:14, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > I belive that creative's soundblasters are well supported under Linux. The > bigger versions (they vary between $200-$800 I belive) have loads of input > and output types and they deliver very good sound. > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > I am constructing a machine that will be used as a dedicated MP3 player. > > I need a bit of input regarding what sound card to put in it. Pretty > > much the only cards I've got experience with are Trident chipset based. > > The chipset is well supported in ALSA, but the card is pretty low > > quality (only cost $10). > > > > Whatever card I get should be fully supported by ALSA. I'd like decent > > line-in support. I have a pretty big cassette collection and would like > > to record the contents to disk before the quality degrades too far. > > > > It would also be nice to have both amplified and unamplified output. At > > the moment the card will be plugged in to a set of "multimedia" speakers > > but may in the future be hooked up to a real stereo amp. > > > > Does anybody here have experience with such a system setup? What's an > > appropriate card? > > > > Thanks. > > noah > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________________ > > > > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -- You will be called upon to help a friend in trouble.
