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

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Thinkpenguin.com sells a usb sound card crystal-cs if memory serves that 
needs no proprietary drivers.

On Tue, 24 May 2016, Martin McCormick wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 14:27:38
> From: Martin McCormick <martin.m@suddenlink.net>
> To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?
> Resent-Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 18:27:56 +0000 (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 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 not work without
> proprietary drivers available to Windows or Mac users. These
> features are usually not show stoppers so there is no real
> problem.
>
> 	The only USB sound card they had was a SoundBlaster XG5
> designed for the gaming market but, I thought, this is probably
> pretty good and, if most everything on it works, how can you go
> wrong?
>
> 	Well, here's how. Firstly, I am not bashing Creative Labs
> or the product itself but this is what happens when things become
> overly specialized.
>
> 	What I was looking for was a sound card which would
> record stereo. They usually will play, also but recording two
> line-level channels is a must.
>
> 	This is a really neat little device in that it has
> optical line input and output ports and a stereo headphone output
> but there is only a microphone input--(game over.)
>
> 	I did power it up and ran amixer on it to see if maybe
> there is more to that Mic input than originally meets the eye but there
> is actually less. There are several PCM inputs and maybe one is
> the microphone but it isn't clear what each PCM channel does.
> Again, if there are not two discrete analog line-level audio
> inputs, it can not be used as a normal sound card.
>
> 	I rarely need to return products to a store, but I am
> glad this one has a reasonable return policy because the device
> is so highly specialized that there is no way to use it for
> anything but playback only or as, in a game, good sound with a
> Mic for one to talk over.
>
> 	Basically, are there any good new USB sound cards these
> days that record and play stereo under Linux?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Martin McCormick
>
>

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    Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-05-24 21:50 +0200
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    Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2016-05-24 22:40 +0200
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