We recently picked up a few of these:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/404522-REG/ESI_Ego_Sys_JULI_Juli_4_Input.html
.

I haven't had a chance to test them with Rivednell and Linux yet, but
people say they work. Decent semi-pro sound card for not much more money
than an X-Fi. Hit me up again in a week and I'll tell you if we've had any
luck with them.

-Andy Sayler
WMFO Medford

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 08:57, Bill Putney <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rivendell works with just about anything that's on the Linux HCL. There
> are a lot of cases where even things that use the same chips as
> something that's on the HCL will work.
>
> We needed digital audio outputs to our consoles and I found some $30 USB
> to S/PDIF interfaces on eBay that have been working perfectly here. They
> look like little aluminum blocks (red, black or gold anodized)
> 3/4"x3/4"x1-1/2" with a USB-B connector on one end and either an optical
> or coax connector on the other end. The chip has a real simple job,
> shuffle bits from the USB to the S/PDIF. It doesn't have any analog
> parts or D-A converters so a more expensive device isn't necessarily
> better. The trick is that it's not listed on the HCL but uses the same
> chip as something that is.
>
> Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA
>
> On 12/25/11 7:32 AM, Alan Peterson wrote:
> >>> From: "James Harrison"<[email protected]>
> >>> My £10 Sound Blaster Live! from 199something sounds nicer than a
> midrange X-Fi if you ask me.
> >
> > Cool, thanks.
> > Does a card that old work well with Rivendell?
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > Alan Peterson CBT/CEA
> >
> > Sent from my 1975 Cray-1
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