Re: sound cards locked, No Host

good point but no success. used top to find blender and kill. no improvement On 11/6/23 10:53, Marco M. wrote: Am 06.11.2023 um 10:26:53 Uhr schrieb Thomas George: alsactl says sound cards locked. There is a lock directory in var/lib/alsa/asound-state mpv song.ogg fails with message No Host

Re: sound cards locked, No Host

Am 06.11.2023 um 10:26:53 Uhr schrieb Thomas George: > alsactl says sound cards locked. There is a lock directory in > var/lib/alsa/asound-state > > mpv song.ogg fails with message No Host > > There may be solutions in the debian-user archives. I am slowly > re

sound cards locked, No Host

Just upgraded to Bookworm no sound. alsactl says sound cards locked. There is a lock directory in var/lib/alsa/asound-state mpv song.ogg fails with message No Host There may be solutions in the debian-user archives. I am slowly reading these in search of a solution. Any help? Tom George

Re: heads up: timidity causes pulseaudio to not find sound cards

Very helpful. Thanks. I'll keep this around in case I lose sound again! -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.13 on Debian 9.5

Re: heads up: timidity causes pulseaudio to not find sound cards

Eric S Fraga: > > I recently did an 'apt update; apt upgrade' on my desktop which is > running testing (aka buster). Doing so led to my losing sound through > any application that relies on pulseaudio, e.g. firefox. I could still > use console based tools (e.g. mocp) to listen to music but

Re: heads up: timidity causes pulseaudio to not find sound cards

On Monday, 12 Nov 2018 at 08:12, deloptes wrote: > Hi this is known issue, but purging is really not necessary as you could set > (AFAIK) TIM_ALSASEQ=false > in /etc/default/timidity Thanks. I don't (currently) use timidity so purging was an easy solution. However, it's good to know that there

Re: heads up: timidity causes pulseaudio to not find sound cards

Eric S Fraga wrote: > I recently did an 'apt update; apt upgrade' on my desktop which is > running testing (aka buster).  Doing so led to my losing sound through > any application that relies on pulseaudio, e.g. firefox.  I could still > use console based tools (e.g. mocp) to listen to music but

heads up: timidity causes pulseaudio to not find sound cards

Hello all, I recently did an 'apt update; apt upgrade' on my desktop which is running testing (aka buster). Doing so led to my losing sound through any application that relies on pulseaudio, e.g. firefox. I could still use console based tools (e.g. mocp) to listen to music but pulseaudio could

Multiple sound cards in Wheezy occasionally misses ALSA motherboard card0

sound cards, (card1 is a USB microphone, and is not connected.) Occasionally, after a boot, "cat /proc/asound/cards", yields: 0 [U0x46d0x81b]: USB-Audio - USB Device 0x46d:0x81b USB Device 0x46d:0x81b at usb-:00:1a.7-1.4, high speed

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

On Sat, May 28, 2016 1:17 pm, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am not using XLR's, but I do use 1-to-1 isolation transformers > between the audio sources and sound inputs Hum in audio systems almost always is a consequence of improper grounding. Although an XLR connector on a piece of apparatus

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

rlhar...@oplink.net writes: > Lexicon Alpha (powered by USB) and Lexicon Omega (external supply) are > excellent broadcast-quality USB audio interfaces which "just work" with > Linux. > > Another excellent device is the Shure X2U, which is particularly adapted > to portable use (USB powered; fits

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

On Tue, May 24, 2016 1:27 pm, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Basically, are there any good new USB sound cards these > days that record and play stereo under Linux? > > Thanks for any suggestions. Lexicon Alpha (powered by USB) and Lexicon Omega (external supply) are excellent broadc

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

Jude DaShiell wrote: > For the audiophiles, if a jack2 discussion list exists that will probably be > another good list to join. It could be discussion of what jack2 can do that > alsa cannot may happen and in that happy event you'll get a knowledge of > what to use when and why. JACK and JACK2

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

deloptes writes: > This is a different topic - there is the remote control group - > http://www.lirc.org > > I've even dared to fix few things in the kernel driver to make a remote > work > properly - but it was ages ago. > > I than mapped manually the keys to action in

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

On Tue, 24 May 2016, Martin McCormick wrote: Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 21:07:30 From: Martin McCormick <marti...@suddenlink.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? Resent-Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 01:07:45 + (UTC) Resent-From: debia

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

On Wed, 25 May 2016 11:24:48 +0200 deloptes wrote: > This is a different topic - there is the remote control group - > http://www.lirc.org > > I've even dared to fix few things in the kernel driver to make a remote > work properly - but it was ages ago. > > I than mapped

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

Martin McCormick wrote: > I do have an older USB card, for instance, that is a > SoundBlaster Extigy. I bought it second-hand at a swap meet and > in Debian, it records and plays just fine but had I gotten it > new, I would have been aggravated. There is a nice slick remote > control that came

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

On Wednesday 25 May 2016 02:07:30 Martin McCormick wrote: > the debian-user list as it is primarily for helping > folks install, adjust and operate good old Debian and ubuntu > Linux. No, it is NOT for Ubuntu. :-/ Lisi

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

=?UTF-8?Q?Joel_Wir=C4=81mu_Pauling?= writes: > Rather than going with a Consumer card. Head to a Audio/Music store. What > you are looking for is a USB - Audio interface; they generally have much > better Signal to Noise ration, hardware mixers and Ballanced XLR outputs > and

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

input options. > > > > On 24 May 2016 at 11:27, Martin McCormick <marti...@suddenlink.net> wrote: > >> I went to a local electronics emporium and asked for a >> USB sound card that might possibly work under Linux. I have been >> messing with Linux an

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

enough to know that a number of > USB sound cards mostly work well enough for one to play and > record stereo but some special features may not work without > proprietary drivers available to Windows or Mac users. These > features are usually not show stoppers so there is no real > problem.

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> writes: > I suggest you check here > http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main > and try the alsa mailing list. I did try that link and I see that, as I suspected, there are tons of USB sound cards. My thanks also to Jude D

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

Den 24. mai 2016 20:27, skrev Martin McCormick: - (see subject) I have had good luck going to a musical-instruments store, rather than a computer store. They know sound. Explain your intended use to them, and they might actually understand what you want. Get a no-frills, but not the very cheapest

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

ubject: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? Resent-Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 18:27:56 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org I went to a local electronics emporium and asked for a USB sound card that might possibly work under Linux. I have been messing with Linux

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

Joe writes: > For recording, good signal to noise ratio is important, and the four or > five internal cards I've used over the years have all been very poor in > this respect, maybe in the low 40s in dB. > > USB devices I've tried have had much less noise, particularly if

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

deloptes writes: > I suggest you check here > http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main > and try the alsa mailing list. > > I would stay to the PCI cards if possible because with USB you will have > lesser speed and quality, but it is up to you. > Consider CPU

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

On Tue, 24 May 2016 20:44:59 +0200 deloptes wrote: > > I would stay to the PCI cards if possible because with USB you will > have lesser speed and quality, but it is up to you. > Consider CPU and hard drive speed as well. > For recording, good signal to noise ratio is

Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

Martin McCormick wrote: > I went to a local electronics emporium and asked for a > USB sound card that might possibly work under Linux. I have been > messing with Linux and USB long enough to know that a number of > USB sound cards mostly work well enough for one to play and >

What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

I went to a local electronics emporium and asked for a USB sound card that might possibly work under Linux. I have been messing with Linux and USB long enough to know that a number of USB sound cards mostly work well enough for one to play and record stereo but some special features may

Re: no more sound cards

On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 21:40 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: Are the sound modules loaded? I'm guessing snd_hda_intel for the Intel stuff, and other snd_ for the rest of the hardware. after boot, no: - lsmod | grep snd (empty output) - ls

Re: no more sound cards

at last get a fix doing: 1/ purge all oss packages 2/ purge all alsa packages (alsa-base alsa-utils libsox-fmt-alsa osspd-alsa} 3/ install these packages After that, all sound cards reappeared. I don't know whether step 1/ was useful or not. I don't tag this thread as Solved as I

no more sound cards

hi everybody, This morning, I found that my sound cards disapeared from my Jessie desktop. lspci | grep -i audio gives: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fbc (rev a1) 05:00.0

Re: no more sound cards

On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 11:49 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi everybody, This morning, I found that my sound cards disapeared from my Jessie desktop. lspci | grep -i audio gives: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) 01:00.1

Re: no more sound cards

On Fri, 22 May 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: Are the sound modules loaded? I'm guessing snd_hda_intel for the Intel stuff, and other snd_ for the rest of the hardware. after boot, no: - lsmod | grep snd (empty output) - ls /proc/asound ls: cannot access /proc/asound: No such file or

OT - PCI vs external sound cards for professional audio (was Re: What professional PCIe audio cards do work with Linux?)

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:25:51AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I use an M-Audio Delta 1010LT on Debian Squeeze. Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing! I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 which I use for some very amateur messing around. I occasionally hook an Alesis Micron up to it, both MIDI and the

Re: OT - PCI vs external sound cards for professional audio (was Re: What professional PCIe audio cards do work with Linux?)

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:59:42 + Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:25:51AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I use an M-Audio Delta 1010LT on Debian Squeeze. Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing! I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 which I use for some very amateur

udev rules and Sound Cards Squeeze

After the upgrade from lenny to squeeze, the sound cards and CDROM's got all scrambled. The upgrade automatically generated rules for the CDROM's so those worked after a bit of tweaking on the symlink path. The two sound cards on the system need the same attention but no automatic rules

Re: Two sound cards. SOLVED

On 24/02/12 02:30, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 12:47 +, Brian wrote: On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 11:42:59 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Does anybody know how I can make the CA0106 card on my m/c the default sound card? At the moment, card 0 is the Intel ICH5. I know it's

Two sound cards. How to make the CA0106 the default.

Does anybody know how I can make the CA0106 card on my m/c the default sound card? At the moment, card 0 is the Intel ICH5. I know it's something to do with modprobe. Removing the two kernel modules and then entering the CA0106 module as card 0. Does anybody know the details? -- Sian

Re: Two sound cards. How to make the CA0106 the default.

On 02/23/2012 12:10 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Does anybody know how I can make the CA0106 card on my m/c the default sound card? At the moment, card 0 is the Intel ICH5. I know it's something to do with modprobe. Removing the two kernel modules and then entering the CA0106 module as card 0.

Re: Two sound cards. How to make the CA0106 the default.

On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 11:42:59 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Does anybody know how I can make the CA0106 card on my m/c the default sound card? At the moment, card 0 is the Intel ICH5. I know it's something to do with modprobe. Removing the two kernel modules and then entering the

Re: Two sound cards. How to make the CA0106 the default.

On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 12:25 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: On 02/23/2012 12:10 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Does anybody know how I can make the CA0106 card on my m/c the default sound card? At the moment, card 0 is the Intel ICH5. I know it's something to do with modprobe. Removing the two

Re: Two sound cards. How to make the CA0106 the default.

On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 12:47 +, Brian wrote: On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 11:42:59 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Does anybody know how I can make the CA0106 card on my m/c the default sound card? At the moment, card 0 is the Intel ICH5. I know it's something to do with modprobe. Removing

Re: Two Sound Cards, I hope.

Forwarded Message From: Martin McCormick mar...@x.it.okstate.edu To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Two Sound Cards, I hope. Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:22:27 -0500 I was hoping to end up with /dev/dsp0 and /dev/dsp1 in order to record two audio feeds at once

Re: Two Sound Cards, I hope.

PS: Note, even different professional devices that can be synced professional, can't be synced to clean phases. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Two Sound Cards, I hope.

On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:22:27 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: I have a Dell Optiplex with the on-board sound chip set which works fine but I wanted to also use an AWE64 Gold as a second sound device. The AWE64 stole the show when I plugged it in to the mother board and the on-board sound device

Two Sound Cards, I hope.

I have a Dell Optiplex with the on-board sound chip set which works fine but I wanted to also use an AWE64 Gold as a second sound device. The AWE64 stole the show when I plugged it in to the mother board and the on-board sound device disappeared. If I try asoundconf list, it shows only the

Re: Two Sound Cards, I hope.

-nonfree package is installed? What's the output of lspci (strip the unnecessary lines, but look for the sound cards there)? I suggest first checking the general awareness of the system regarding plugged in devices. Then we dig further. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Two Sound Cards, I hope.

On 07/08/11 at 11:22pm, Martin McCormick wrote: I have a Dell Optiplex with the on-board sound chip set which works fine but I wanted to also use an AWE64 Gold as a second sound device. The AWE64 stole the show when I plugged it in to the mother board and the on-board sound device

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 09:31:56PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: If you're going for a USB DAC, how about this one: http://www.usbdacs.com/ :drooling: ... I own one of those... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:52:45 -0500 Nick Lidakis nlida...@verizon.net wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:40:33PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote: Equipment: Adcom GTP-450 Tuner Adcom

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:40:33PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote: Equipment: Adcom GTP-450 Tuner Adcom GCD-700 CDcarousel/player Adcom GFA-5000 dual audio amp Vandersteen Model 2

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote: I have a couple of questions for you before I delve into details of my recommendaion. What kind of hi-fi are we talking about? Do you have a dedicated listening space or is this for

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Fri,16.Oct.09, 13:50:04, Paul E Condon wrote: electronics store. I have never seen balanced output of stereo audio in a single jack on a computer. (An example of RC time constant I definitely recall reading about sound cards with balanced outputs. M-Audio would be a good start... Regards

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Oct 17, 2009, at 1:24 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,16.Oct.09, 13:50:04, Paul E Condon wrote: electronics store. I have never seen balanced output of stereo audio in a single jack on a computer. (An example of RC time constant I definitely recall reading about sound cards

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

reading about sound cards with balanced outputs. M-Audio would be a good start... ALSA has a driver for this amazing piece of hardware (balanced IO available): http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_9632.php -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com Yes, this is amazing. You have put me onto

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have been out of touch with the high-end audio world since I bought this system. I had never heard of Pass Labs until you mentioned them in your email. Wikipedia puts them in the class where Adcom was when I bought. I don't want

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: So far the responses that I have gotten comfirm without a doubt that what I was told by the sales person in Best Buy is not at all the whole story. There is *a lot* more to the solution than just buying an adapter cable. Mention of

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On 20091016_083137, Rob Owens wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: So far the responses that I have gotten comfirm without a doubt that what I was told by the sales person in Best Buy is not at all the whole story. There is *a lot* more to the solution than

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Oct 16, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly the high freq. part of the signal. Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway. Use the hardware Deutsche Grammophone, etc. use -- your recordings aren't going

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

Glenn writes: Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly the high freq. part of the signal. Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not any impedance if it is terminated. Not at 100' anyway. Right. You can't hear 1Mhz. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

RE: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end musicsystems

Paul E Condon wrote: long adapter cable (~100ft). The cable would be carrying analog signal. Unbalanced signals, such as might be found on computer sound card 1/8 TRS jacks and audio equipment RCA jacks, are susceptible to common-mode noise and ground loops. If your computer sound card line

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On 20091016_115141, ghe wrote: On Oct 16, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly the high freq. part of the signal. Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway. Use the hardware Deutsche Grammophone, etc. use

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly the high freq. part of the signal. Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway. Impedance and balance are two different things. Impedance only becomes an issue

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On 20091016_151335, ghe wrote: On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly the high freq. part of the signal. Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway. Impedance and balance are two different things.

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

I have a couple of questions for you before I delve into details of my recommendaion. What kind of hi-fi are we talking about? Do you have a dedicated listening space or is this for casual listening when doing other things, i.e., are we talking JVC or Pass Labs? How important is it that the

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote: I have a couple of questions for you before I delve into details of my recommendaion. What kind of hi-fi are we talking about? Do you have a dedicated listening space or is this for casual listening when doing other things, i.e., are we talking JVC or

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

H.S. wrote: Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:06:51PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Certainly not. At best it is equally bad. (On the other hand, apparently most people don't mind listening to music at low sound quality). YMMV. I use *professional* grade sound cards

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

steef wrote: H.S. wrote: Not sure if this is professional grade, but I have used M-audio 2496 (http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Audiophile2496.html). It has worked like a charm. Used it for live music recording and also for playback via a mixer. The system is Ubuntu based, but should

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Mon, 05 Oct 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 05 October 2009 13:20:14 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: It is purely digital. 16-bit (not sure if this is floating- or fixed-point), stereo, 44.1 kHz samples, IIRC. What's the difference between

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

H.S. wrote: steef wrote: er ... looks like your query was directed at me. The M-audio 2496, as far as I recall, worked out of the box with alsa on Ubuntu (since Gutsy, did it have 2.6.24 kernel). So I would expect it to work out of the box on any typical Debian desktop computer

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 09:53:21PM -0700, Mark wrote: Rob wrote: -- Since you care about the sound quality, I'd recommend encoding with flac. That's lossless, so there is no sound quality difference between flac-encoded music and music straight from the CD.Forget about mp3. It

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:38:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Rob Owens put forth on 10/7/2009 8:02 PM: When streaming music, if you play it on 2 different computers will the music be in sync? I'm thinking of a sort of party mode where I want the same thing playing in several rooms of

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

Rob Owens put forth on 10/8/2009 5:28 PM: On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:38:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Rob Owens put forth on 10/7/2009 8:02 PM: When streaming music, if you play it on 2 different computers will the music be in sync? I'm thinking of a sort of party mode where I want the

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems [solved, somewhat]

Well, I've certainly received many useful comments from first responders. The situation is, indeed, more complicated than the guy in the electronics store claimed. I can't say my problem is 'solved'. I now know that I have a lot of research and deciding to do. But I now have a solid starting

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:18:10AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Now, it is quite feasible to store my entire CD collection on hard disk, even without compression, and all computers have audio output. But what is the audio quality of the analog sound signal? I went to the local Best Buy store

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:06:51PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Certainly not. At best it is equally bad. (On the other hand, apparently most people don't mind listening to music at low sound quality). YMMV. I use *professional* grade sound cards, because I like good sound quality

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 02:35:05PM -0700, Mark wrote: I have been mulling over the same kinds of problems for some time also. Noone in this thread has yet mentioned the Logitech Slingbox:

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:06:51PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Certainly not. At best it is equally bad. (On the other hand, apparently most people don't mind listening to music at low sound quality). YMMV. I use *professional* grade sound cards, because I like good

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

Rob Owens wrote: Vorbis and mp3 are lossy, which means that they approximate the sound on the original recording. Kinda like zip compression that doesn't exactly reproduce what you compressed. Flac is lossless. Somebody mentioned wav format. As far as I know, wav doesn't hold meta

OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

Rob Owens put forth on 10/7/2009 8:02 PM: When streaming music, if you play it on 2 different computers will the music be in sync? I'm thinking of a sort of party mode where I want the same thing playing in several rooms of the house. Depends on your distance to each loudspeaker. Sound

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

Rob wrote: -- Since you care about the sound quality, I'd recommend encoding with flac. That's lossless, so there is no sound quality difference between flac-encoded music and music straight from the CD.Forget about mp3. It sounds horrible, in my opinion. High pitch sounds like cymbals

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

/t60819.html http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t70734.html Note that internal sound cards are more prone to noise and distortion than external cards, in case you weren't already aware. FWIW, reasons I went with a Squeezebox include (if you haven't considered these yet): 1

OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

Years ago (~35y), I spent a lot of money to get a really good sound system to play my CDs. It was fully transistorized. The loud speakers are big, with woofer, mid-range and tweeter, and are driven by a really heavy power amplifier box. Because of the solid-state internals, it has worked without

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Monday 05 October 2009 12:18:10 Paul E Condon wrote: one's computer to one's home sound system, and showed me a short cable that they have for sale that has a triaxial plug on one end and two RCA jacks on the other and assured me that this was what he used at home and that this was all that

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

ask here - Is the analog audio signal at the output socket of *all* consumer-grade computers equally good? Certainly not. At best it is equally bad. (On the other hand, apparently most people don't mind listening to music at low sound quality). YMMV. I use *professional* grade sound cards

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: It is purely digital. 16-bit (not sure if this is floating- or fixed-point), stereo, 44.1 kHz samples, IIRC. What's the difference between 16-bit floating-point and 16-bit fixed-point? I always thought those are just

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Monday 05 October 2009 13:20:14 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: It is purely digital. 16-bit (not sure if this is floating- or fixed-point), stereo, 44.1 kHz samples, IIRC. What's the difference between 16-bit floating-point and 16-bit fixed-point? I always

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

there are professional sound cards or boxes which offer decent quality, but I have no expectation of finding out about them. Like you, I spent some money in the 1970s and 80s, but can't afford to do so now. Probably a music shop would be a better place to ask than a computer store. But ah

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

Paul E Condon wrote: good sound system to play my CDs. store my entire CD collection on hard disk, even without compression, and all computers have audio output. the cable run from where I have computers to where I have my hi-fi is ~100ft Have you considered building a media center/ home

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:18:10AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Years ago (~35y), I spent a lot of money to get a really good sound system to play my CDs. It was fully transistorized. The loud speakers are big, with woofer, mid-range and tweeter, and are driven by a really heavy power amplifier

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

I have been mulling over the same kinds of problems for some time also. Noone in this thread has yet mentioned the Logitech Slingbox: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/wireless_music_systems/cl=us,enhttp://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/wireless_music_systems/cl=us,en

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

Paul E Condon put forth on 10/5/2009 12:18 PM: Years ago (~35y), I spent a lot of money to get a really good sound system to play my CDs. It was fully transistorized. The loud speakers are big, with woofer, mid-range and tweeter, and are driven by a really heavy power amplifier box. Because of

Re: USB Sound Cards on Etch: Can't Get One To Work

I could find nothing to show me that I could work around this in any way, I finally started searching for other USB sound cards and found a few references to people using an iMic with Debian Etch. It seemed like they just plugged it in and it worked. No such luck. Yet I dont' have access

USB Sound Cards on Etch: Can't Get One To Work

that helped me to track this down.) Since I could find nothing to show me that I could work around this in any way, I finally started searching for other USB sound cards and found a few references to people using an iMic with Debian Etch. It seemed like they just plugged it in and it worked

USB Sound Cards on Etch: Can't Get One To Work

that helped me to track this down.) Since I could find nothing to show me that I could work around this in any way, I finally started searching for other USB sound cards and found a few references to people using an iMic with Debian Etch. It seemed like they just plugged it in and it worked

Re: sound cards, real time kernels and 64studio.......

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:45:06PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, I have been nosing into the world of recording music on a PC i.e turning it into an 8 track tape recorder with its own on board synthesiser, drum machine and other goodies... Apparently there is a

Re: sound cards, real time kernels and 64studio.......

Place the following in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/ ./ They have images, sources, headers, various modules for current Kernels with Ingo Molnar's realtime preemption patches. I would use the 2.6.21-rt1 version for now (avoid the rt4, the rt7 works fine

sound cards, real time kernels and 64studio.......

Dear Debianists, I have been nosing into the world of recording music on a PC i.e turning it into an 8 track tape recorder with its own on board synthesiser, drum machine and other goodies... Apparently there is a Debian based distribution called 64studio that runs on 64 bit machines (I am

Re: sound cards, real time kernels and 64studio.......

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this true or is the 2.6.17 kernel in Etch OK for sound recording? If you are going to be modifying your distribution anyway, you might consider rolling a vanilla kernel from kernel.org + your

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