Re: [Sheflug] Can anyone recommend a USB sound device?

[Ezra Morris <epcmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Adam Funk<a.funk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a device with a line-in jack and a USB connection
> that does work with Linux?  (I just want to connect the line-out from my
> hi-fi to record with audacity; the laptop has a microphone jack but no
> line-in.)

Depending on your laptop, you may just be able to use the mic input as
line in. Using my Dell Inspiron under windoze, an application pops up
asking whether it's a mic or line in, but in Ubuntu it just seems to
work.

Personally, I wouldn't recommend USB sound cards, purely because of
the latency they create, although for your usage, this probably
wouldn't matter too much.

It may be worth looking at PCMCIA cards too if you have such a slot. I
can't recommend any unfortunately as I've never used any.

Ezra.

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