29 Jan
2007
29 Jan
'07
8:59 p.m.
1) Audio card. I don't know, may be that computer
is lucky enough to
get good on board sound. But 3 of them I met in person, were simply
horrible.
If you spend about $100 you can buy M-Audio Audiophile 2496.
You will have dramatically better audio quality. I'd even say that
only from here you can call it "a quality". Btw, it has RCA
inputs/outputs (and an S/PDIF).
You should invest some money in a decent audio card. Onboard sound is ok
for playback of the system startsound and YouTube videos, but certainly
not for recording. Something like the recommended Audiophile cards are
ok. Make sure your Linux uses the ALSA sound system.
If you just need a simple way to record you can just use the "arecord"
command which ships with the ALSA drivers. It can record in 32bit
formats (if your audiocard supports this, why you should invest some
money here) and can stop after a specified duration. It is currently
limited to plain .wav files (thus 2GB max), but will split if reaching
2GB, so no audio will be lost. When you edit your recordings later on
you can merge your audio files again.
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