[LAU] [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

[Ralf Beck]

Ken Restivo schrieb:
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> 2) USB 2.0 is proprietary and non-standard
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That's not correct. There is a USB 2.0 Audio/Midi specification. Vendors
just don't develop their devices according to the
spec and instead use their own proprietary protocols.


> 3) Because of (1) and (2), Linux Audio users will soon be left without any way to do multichannel recording on laptops.
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Well, there is a german company MARIAN, which is doing audio interfaces.
They have a USB interface and a bunch of
PCI interfaces including an ADAT only card.

On their webpage they state, that they are willing to give all necessary
information to write drivers to developers of oter OSes.

See http://www.marian.de/en/aboutus

Has anybody ever contacted them?

Ralf