Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-24 Thread Grant
I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. Note, I haven't any and you want to check

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 21-08-08 16:15, Grant wrote: I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. Note, I

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread James Shatto
I picked up a Delta 44 (pci / ice1712) off of craigslist for $100. I would check to see what they need first. The Delta is a fine card, but by the time you add in a microphone preamp, headphone preamp, and stuff just to record / playback stuff. Not to mention the costs of cables and adapters

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
I picked up a Delta 44 (pci / ice1712) off of craigslist for $100. I would check to see what they need first. The Delta is a fine card, but by the time you add in a microphone preamp, headphone preamp, and stuff just to record / playback stuff. Not to mention the costs of cables and

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. Note, I haven't any and you want to check

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Mark Constable
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:37:31 am Grant wrote: I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? Just a non-relevent FWIW but my cheap $80 mobo does 24/96 with an

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Mark A Jenks
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Constable Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:01 AM To: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:37:31 am Grant wrote: I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? Just a non-relevent FWIW but my cheap $80 mobo does 24/96 with an optical output and I think it also does

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 15:07, James Shatto wrote: Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundcard,

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 17:37, Grant wrote: I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? For inexpensive, I believe one of the CMI cards would be a good choice. Note, I

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundcard, rather than from the media that it

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 20:58, Grant wrote: Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundcard, rather

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundcard, rather than from the media that it

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 23:09, Grant wrote: Can you just mount the DVD and cp the tracks over? Probably not or you would have done that. Not as individual tracks no. It's a regular DVD-Video, so you can copy over the VOBs ofcourse, but piecing things together requires processing them from harddisk

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
Can you rip and play back 20-bit HDCD audio? I could, with a hackish tool I have here, but I must say that for now I'm experiencing the value in HDCD mosly in the fact that if something is an HDCD it was produced by someone that gives a shit about sound quality and stands a good chance of

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread James Shatto
Those are the two I have here. mplayer was giving me endless grief actually ripping the tracks from the DVD so I haven't yet done that in fact, but: mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob Granted that my default distro supplied version of mplayer didn't work for this. I

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 23:44, James Shatto wrote: Those are the two I have here. mplayer was giving me endless grief actually ripping the tracks from the DVD so I haven't yet done that in fact, but: mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob I'd have figured that out :-) Didn't work

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 22-08-08 23:44, Grant wrote: http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ Interesting. Thanks. Check this out: http://dvd-a.info/Index.asp?stitle=neil+young 2 pages of mainly Neil Young DVD-A releases all containing tracks up to 24bit/176khz. Lots of people are ripping their DVD-A discs

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread James Shatto
mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob I'd have figured that out :-) Didn't work with the 96/24 audio... Well, you could probably do the arecord method. arecord -D copy -t wav -c 2 -f S24_BE -r 96000 audio_track.wav (unverified syntax) Set record to the PCM / VOL device

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Grant
http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ Interesting. Thanks. Check this out: http://dvd-a.info/Index.asp?stitle=neil+young 2 pages of mainly Neil Young DVD-A releases all containing tracks up to 24bit/176khz. Lots of people are ripping their DVD-A discs with the above tool. DVD-A is

Re: [Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-22 Thread Rene Herman
On 23-08-08 00:00, James Shatto wrote: mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound_track.wav ./source.vob I'd have figured that out :-) Didn't work with the 96/24 audio... Well, you could probably do the arecord method. arecord -D copy -t wav -c 2 -f S24_BE -r 96000 audio_track.wav (unverified

[Alsa-user] Donation Recommendation? - 24-bit sound card

2008-08-21 Thread Grant
I'm going to donate a 24-bit capable sound card to the mpd project to add 24-bit support. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that is 24-bit capable and PCI, PCIe, or USB? - Grant - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the