Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread lists
Scanner audio has an SNR of about 40dB on a good day. Bandwidth is about 4KHz.   Original Message   From: Martin McCormick Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 5:52 PM To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo Bill Unruh

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread Martin McCormick
Bill Unruh writes: > > If you want to try a really cheap, but really working one: I have a > > Behringer ACA222. Not good enough for the Pros and Studios, but I am > quite > > UCA222. It seems more or less identical to the UCA202. And the quality is > actually good. 16 bit

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread Bill Unruh
On Fri, 27 May 2016, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 May 2016, li...@lazygranch.com wrote: > >> Is there a reasonably-priced USB card with stereo Line >> input that works in Linux? > > If you want to try a really cheap, but really working one: I have a > Behringer ACA222. Not good

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Fri, 27 May 2016, li...@lazygranch.com wrote: > Is there a reasonably-priced USB card with stereo Line > input that works in Linux? If you want to try a really cheap, but really working one: I have a Behringer ACA222. Not good enough for the Pros and Studios, but I am quite happy with it.

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread Bill Unruh
On Fri, 27 May 2016, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is there a reasonably-priced USB card with stereo Line > input that works in Linux? I am surprized. I would have thought that most sound cards at least with line input, would do stereo. The microphone inputs will quite possibly be mono (

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread lists
Sorry about the blank message. If you go onto eBay and search for "USB sound"‎, a number of vendors sell this metal cased sound card that uses a cmedia chip set. It works under Linux, at least as far as the line in and out go. 

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread lists
  Original Message   From: Martin McCormick Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 12:59 PM To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo Is there a reasonably-priced USB card with stereo Line input that works in Linux? I recently needed to buy one as

[Alsa-user] Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

2016-05-27 Thread Martin McCormick
Is there a reasonably-priced USB card with stereo Line input that works in Linux? I recently needed to buy one as the second sound card on a Dell tower running wheezy. A local store which fortunately has a good return policy sold me a SoundBlaster XG5 which looked like an

Re: [Alsa-user] how to make sure internal card is card 0

2016-05-27 Thread covici
Thanks again. Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 27 May 2016 04:58:44 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > >I have an alsa.conf, but not alsa-base.conf. > > Assumed the alsa.conf should be located in /etc/modprobe.d/, then add > > options snd slots=snd_emu10k1 > >

Re: [Alsa-user] how to make sure internal card is card 0

2016-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 27 May 2016 04:58:44 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: >I have an alsa.conf, but not alsa-base.conf. Assumed the alsa.conf should be located in /etc/modprobe.d/, then add options snd slots=snd_emu10k1 to the bottom of this file. Regards, Ralf

Re: [Alsa-user] how to make sure internal card is card 0

2016-05-27 Thread covici
Thanks for your quick response, I will try that. I have an alsa.conf, but not alsa-base.conf. Thanks. Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi, > > write /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf [1] with the content > > options snd slots=snd_emu10k1 > > assumed snd_emu10k1

Re: [Alsa-user] how to make sure internal card is card 0

2016-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Regarding https://sourceforge.net/p/alsa/mailman/alsa-user/?style=flat neither somebodies reply, nor my reply came through the list, that's why I resend my reply and Cc now. Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 10:16:21 +0200 To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [Alsa-user] how to make sure internal card is card 0

2016-05-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, write /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf [1] with the content options snd slots=snd_emu10k1 assumed snd_emu10k1 (snd-emu10k1) should be the module for your internal sound card. The Emu card then always will be hw:0 and the USB device always hw:1. Regards, Ralf [1] For my machine USB devices

[Alsa-user] how to make sure internal card is card 0

2016-05-27 Thread covici
Hi. I have an internal and a USB sound card using linux kernel 4.1.17. Now if I boot with the usb card plugged in, it seems most of the time to set it as card 0 which is a major problem for me, due to some applications I have. So, my question is, how to make sure the internal sound card is

[Alsa-user] Custom card returns "arecord: main:722: audio open error: Invalid argument"

2016-05-27 Thread Rob Nertney
I've build a card that is registered correctly as far as I can tell. My hardware is: static struct snd_pcm_hardware my_pcm_hw = { .info = (SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP | SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BLOCK_TRANSFER | SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP_VALID), .formats = SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_U8, .rates