Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-05 Thread Y.A. Bolawy
Good to hear that you also think it's a good pick. It would have been perfect if M Audio itself made it possible to update firmwe regardless of the os one uses, but I guess there not the only manufacturer out there that is not that visionary. Anyway, I'll order one and will start using it when

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-04 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:42:48 +0100 Y.A. Bolawy bol...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a typical end user I'm afraid, so the card I'll get should run out of the box if at all possible. It'd be great if it would be from a manufacturer that is more or less open source friendly or at least alsa project

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread James Shatto
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:42:48 +0100 Y.A. Bolawy bol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'd like some advice on a USB soundcard. The reason for getting one is that I'd like to have good quality sound on all the computers I use or will use. The quality should be good enough to allow speech

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Fabrício Nihues
I got 2 usb sound cards, one is a 5.1 and work with the new .31 kernel out of the box (even 5.1 spdif trought the optical out), it's a generic chineese sound card with CMI chipset, I bougth for my Home Theater. Search for USB external 5.1 sound card on ebay, it's a blue or orange little case. like

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread lists
:47 To: Felix Pfeiferpfeifer.fe...@googlemail.com Cc: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Samuel Gilbert
Hi there, I own a HiFi USB sound card based on a TI Burr-Brown chip. It worked out of the box with Linux on two of my machines. However, I have bought a new machine and now I still haven't found a way to make it play correctly. After a random amount of time, the sound gets garbled. This is

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Felix Pfeifer wrote: USB Audio is a standard. Sadly this is only true for usb 1.x. Most usb 2.0 audiocards don't work under linux. The USB Audio 1.0 standard was written for 1.x devices. There are no devices for the new 2.0 revision because Windows doesn't implement it (see

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Samuel Gilbert wrote: I own a HiFi USB sound card based on a TI Burr-Brown chip. It worked out of the box with Linux on two of my machines. However, I have bought a new machine and now I still haven't found a way to make it play correctly. After a random amount of time, the sound gets

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Y.A. Bolawy
Thanks for all replies so far! I'm reading information re all suggestions. Many seem very nice. I will use it with a laptop and I guess there's no need therefore to get a card with fancy features such as xlr or direct monitoring of the inputs. I basically want to be able to use a combination

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Y.A. Bolawy wrote: Thanks for all replies so far! I'm reading information re all suggestions. Many seem very nice. I will use it with a laptop and I guess there's no need therefore to get a card with fancy features such as xlr or direct monitoring of the inputs. I

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Y.A. Bolawy
Because of the lack of a mic preamp in the card, putting in a microphone preamp is probably a good idea, as otherwise the mic input tends to be pretty quiet. I assume that that is not necessary if I'd use a pc headset, but only if I would want to use a more advanced mic right. For now I'll use

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Bill Unruh
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Y.A. Bolawy wrote: Because of the lack of a mic preamp in the card, putting in a microphone preamp is probably a good idea, as otherwise the mic input tends to be pretty quiet. I assume that that is not necessary if I'd use a pc headset, but only if I would want to use a

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Samuel Gilbert
Hi Clemens and everybody else, I just rebuilt my kernel activating CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED as you suggested and I still get the same problem with the usual messages when the sound is messed-up and I try to play the next song ; [ 758.452549] usb 3-2: amarokapp timed out on ep0out len=0/0

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Y.A. Bolawy
Thanks everyone who shared his thoughts. I think I'll get myself the M Audio transit. It seems to be an expensive deck of cards, but it sounds like the quality is good and I guess it's not easy to achieve that on that scale. For now I'll stick with my pc-headset (sennheiser), which can operate

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Samuel Gilbert wrote: I just rebuilt my kernel activating CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED as you suggested and I still get the same problem with the usual messages when the sound is messed-up and I try to play the next song ; [ 758.452549] usb 3-2: amarokapp timed out on ep0out len=0/0 [

[Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-02 Thread Y.A. Bolawy
Hi all, I'd like some advice on a USB soundcard. The reason for getting one is that I'd like to have good quality sound on all the computers I use or will use. The quality should be good enough to allow speech recognition. Of course, that is possible to some extend with any soundcard, but if the