[linux-audio-user] Reliable A/D with linux laptop

[Nathaniel Gray]

Hi folks,

I've been trying for months now to get arecord to work with the built-in 
microphone and/or mic jack of my laptop but it just won't work.  Since 
the alsa developers seem totally uninterested in fixing or even 
understanding this problem (yes, I've posted on alsa-devel many many 
times) and the built-in A/D on the laptop is unlikely to be any good 
anyhow I've decided to investigate an external A/D system.  It's for a 
laptop so it would have to be either PC card, USB, or firewire, not 
PCI.  Compatability and reliability are a big deal to me -- I'm fed up 
with sending mail to alsa-devel, which seems to route to /dev/null as 
far as I can tell.  Can anybody recommend a solution that's really 
simple to set up and reliable to use under linux and doesn't cost an 
arm and a leg (e.g. less than $400)?  I'm not too picky about number of 
ins and outs or fancy features, more picky about quality, 
compatability, ease-of-use, and reliability.

Thanks,
-n8

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