Charlie O wrote: > Has anyone in this group done audio recording with Linux? > > If so, what sound card(s) do you recommend for recording? > > Thanks, > > Charlie O > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Yes, I've done some recording from LPs and tapes. The AC'97 sound on my Soyo motherboard worked, but the recording quality wasn't very good. I got a "SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit" which played sound after many struggles with ALSA, drivers, installation, etc., but I never did get it to work with recording. At the time, I think the input parts of the driver were still works in progress. The SoundBlaster did work fine with Windows 2000, but didn't work with Win 98 -- it' s not supported there. I got an inexpensive C-Media "Cobra 8xx-something" (don't recall the model number exactly). It worked very well with Linux (Ubuntu), for both playback and recording. I gave that away, and replaced it with a Turtle Beach Riviera board. That uses the same chipset as the C-Media did, and records and sounds good. The Windows software was a bit better with the C-Media board, I think, and both work with Win 98. None of these sound cards are top-of-the-line. Maybe for the best quality recording you need something better, but they all work well enough for me. They're all better than the motherboard buit-in sound. I'm primarily using Audacity for the recording and sound editing. ...Just checked Newegg.com -- I think the "Cobra" board I had was the A-Open Cobra AW850-D, but it may be different now. It was not available for a while; that's why I got the Turtle Beach board. Kraig