15 Aug
2011
15 Aug
'11
5:08 p.m.
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 09:17 -0700, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 09:10:14AM +0100, John Woodard wrote:
There are still plenty on USB sound cards about but I'm not too sure about Linux support
Most of the cheap ones conform to the USB audio class, so are supported out of the box on Linux. If you're looking for the higher end studio quality ones then I believe some of those have custom drivers.
I would be careful about the claims made for the hardware. As an example if you see a card advertised as converting to MP3 I would bet that it doesn't and that the card sends PCM to the PC. The included CD will no doubt include the software which does the MP3 conversion (under Windows or whatever OSes the manufacturer supports)