On 28.08.2013 06:36, Jose van Rooy wrote: Hi, this is the text of the mail inline. I added some formatting to ease reading. It is still not easy to actually find out what his question is, because it is embedded somewhere in this massive wall of text. My best bet is the first line of paragraph eight, plus a little more afterwards. The following is not my text but Jose's: Quote: "Hallo i'm Jose from Holland and here is the confirmation of my membership. The only reason for me to become a member is trying desperate to get a real and straight answer about my strugglings on having my 30 years old African tape-collection finally digitalised without hearable quality-loss, because its very frustrating you can read al kinds of misleading nonsense on the internet, but it's always impossible to get a quick straight answer to your specific questions because nobody knows nothing and there never shows up a telephone-number where you can ask something to someone with robust nowledge. And when you talk about Ubuntu it's like you're from another planet, that's because they are stucked in their own interested selling-conspirations, because -for example the local shops- only want to see money and they are full of that common cheap Windows bust-talk, swelling up theirselves and glorificating the whole day this Social Disgrace and consealed criminal organization called Microsoft, and when asking about Ubuntu they 'suposingly' don't know nothing about it, these poor corrupted souls.... You can say i'm a music-freak but not someone who gathers by quantity and 'name' even if it's awful sounding commercial music. I personally have to like a song, otherwise i throw it without hesitating to the trash-heap, and the music i like is for me to keep it like a pearl, that's why i bought eight years ago the last Tascam 322 double tape-deck that still was available on the market at that time, to secure and perpetrate my unpriceable music-collection. A year ago i discovered the digital world and it intrigues me, and now i know the endless advantages of digitalising music from an analogue source. In the mean time i bought four units of my favorite tablet -the Asus Transformer Prime tf201- in slightly different versions. And i am also in love with my favorite mp3-player the Sansa Fuze 4GB from Sandisc and have like ten of them, because i fear they won't fabricate them anymore, and i doubt wether there will ever be ensembled a better mp3-player as the Fuze: as society 'cheapened' day by day on this day's -in the Last Days-, and companies forcing increasingly worse quality consumer-electronics into the market, wich moreover are more and more heavily DRM-ized. Then like eight months ago i bought my first laptop: an Asus B43S, 14inch, Windows 7 Prof. XP, (x86 64bit), processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU(a)2.50 GHZ, and someone putted Ubuntu too on my laptop and now with the latest version: Ubuntu 13.04 , linux 3.8.0-29-generic(x86_64), Default C Compiler: GNU C compiler version 4.7.3. Using Ubuntu i must say i got hooked on the Audacity-app in the coarse of time. So, after getting familiar with Audacity in the end i discovered the method of converting my tapes with this music-app, but my gladness was short in time because i noticed at a certain moment that my recordings with Audacity were all in mono and not in stereo. I verified the cable but wasn't the problem, then i focused on my laptop and found out that my Asus is equiped only with a misserable little 3,5 mm mono mic line-in jack. Then i searched on internet wich confirmed my previous thoughts: meaning that Gates-Microsoft, bribes the laptop-manufacturers to not ensemble stereo-plugins into the laptops. Further on i discovered the existance of de usb-recording interface or usb-soundcart with a stereo mic line-in connection or another name for it: an A/D-converter (analogue to digital). And here is the point of my question: a few days ago i bought the 'Forte Focusrite' because the seller told me it was the best A/D-converter in it's class. I bought it too because he assured me i would not be stucked to some kind of website to depend on it, after insistingly asking him about this point. A time before, i bought 4 ion-tapeconverters thinking by myself wat an easy solution it was to get my tapes digitalised. But short after installing the tapeconverter-program i saw the cheeky misleading of this ion-tapeconverter, and noticed what kind of an ingenious elaborated filthy trap it was from Apple (i-tunes): a set-up in combination -of coarse- with the vulgar entertainment-industry: it is insulting because you don't even own your converted-to-mp3-tape-music, given that your tapes are converted into mp3-files together with some DRM-code; so you can't play your converted tape-songs on a random mp3-player, and the only manner to listen your own songs on the street would be by purchasing an apple ipod, that evidently is designed to neutralize the DRM-code, so with an ipod only you are able to listen to your converted tape-music if you wish to take your music outside on the street. And too, {in the mean time} you have to 'swallow' all the filthy commercials of this criminal entertainment-maffia during your steps and moves and handlings while being on the 'itunes-site' navigating and so on. When i became aware of the sofisticated-hidden engineered -and huge controlled design of this site with it's malicious premeditated camouflaged manipulation, i didn't doubt a second to delete immediately this awful disgusting nightmare-environment. But that is easyer said then done and needs some focused search-efforts, because like a tenacious trojanhorse-virus it is very hard to erradicate: to say that all the remote corners of your operating-system resulted in being infected by all kinds of Apple-files; you wouldn't expect it ( talking about this filthy-sneaky invisible Apple settler-infiltration on de hard-disk of your computer) but it's true: after the itunes online-download is completed and some further on in time, you'll have automatically and invisibly -in reality- a whole new OS (operating-system) on your computer installed, namely Apple-OS ! Yeah.., in my whole remaining live, i will never ever want to hear or see, nor to cope with anything that has to do with Apple, i hate this fake-built hot-headed, maked-up and camouflaged money-machine sect, and Microsoft belongs to about the same strain: so-called proud of the worthless trash they release each time -along with their vain presumption and their forced rigid fake theatrical plastic smiles, wich with invisible super-glue is stucked to -and hosted on their artifcially polished-up audace built-in cheeks, as secretive cheeky cunning shrewd cheaters as they are. The word Garbage sounds much too euphemistic reminding these double-tongued subjects. So when the seller of the Forte Focusrite said that i would not be stucked -and depend on a site of the A/D-converter brand-, i didn't doubt to purchase the converter, but some time later connecting the gadget at home, i saw immediately that he didn't told me the truth. So now i have this gadget at home, and now i see it is designed for compatibility with the Apple/Microsoft operating systems: i will not even try to get it work on Ubuntu-Audacity because i know this sound-card is heavily conditioned, restricted, DRM-ized... It's something like the previous told story about the ion-tape converter. And even with Windows i know it will stagger and hamper, and i'm sick of al the interested greed and misleadings, caused by invisable and pre-meditated engineerd sabotages, DRM's, staggerings and skipping failures, because the whole internet today is for 99.999% one big DRM, full of controls and behind-the-curtain-manipulations, so i won't try to make this soundcard work on windows too. And this is my desperate question: can somebody from linuxaudio.org indicate me what usb-soundcard i'll exactly need for my purpose?, the brand and the exact serie-number/name of the soundcard; and if not easy available, where to get it? My only purpose is a normal high-quality A/D conversion with no necessity to have more than one stereo-input. I mean i don't need extreme studio-quality sound but i don't want hearable quality-loss either, so i will store the converted music always with lossles flac and 320 Kbp/s CBR mp3. And i'll only work with my favourite app Audacity/Ubuntu on my Asus B43S-laptop (X86 64bit). So i want a simple, robust and quallity usb recording sound-card that you always can rely on so the quality-build can generate a confidential trust in time knowing that it works always and flawless after the same connecting-handlings each time (like the gadget becomes a trusted part of you after a while) and not having to depend on stress-full and disturbing handlings like drivers, updates and other demoralising kind of nail-biting uneasy botched jobs. If what i ask is not fabricated anymore, than i will look for a second hand sound-card from the indicated soundcard in question; because i don't care if it's old or works slow, the important thing to me is that the soundcard works, and that it does his job stable and well, converting analogue music into high quality digitalised music. And about the purchase-costs: if it can be for 600 dollar is oke, but if you say the 1000 dollar-one is really worthwhile -'you have to have it' !- than there is for me no doubt, then i'm forced to kook some more basic and ingenious dishes for a while, and buy less luxurious food, but still: without pesticides, it can be and must be, because i hate chemicals. It all will not be a problem to me for having a quallity A/D-converter. So., again.. asking you my question was the reason to become a member, otherwise perhaps i wouldn't had been able to pose my question with a possible corresponding answer from your part, because i don't know if you need the membership to pose questions. I thank you for hearing me. I don't know from wich angle i can expect an answer to my question about the usb-soundcard, and maybe it is nessecary to reach the members of the consortium list with my question, therefor after sending this email i'll put this mail in the 'send forward-mode' and will use the header of consortium(a)list.linuxaudio.org, so this email will reach the list-members, who (probably debating inbetween them -i don't know the proceedings by linuxaudio.org-) may come to a conclusive answer to my question. If it is possible i would like to have an answer in 5 days because that is the time left inwich i can return this Forte Focusrite to the store, and use the amount for buying other items instead, because they won't give the money back; then i practically 'loss' the money, unless i know the brand-name and serie-name/number of my following soundcard, so they can order it, and all would turn out positive for me (if they can obtain the card from their providers); otherwise i would need the full amount for a new soundcard buying it elswhere, and borrowing something from my sisters. I thank you.., and i will wait for your respons. Jose.*" End of quote.