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From: Yoink! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MP3, Sound Cards and Linux?
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Martin R. Gonzalez wrote:
> I am planning to transform many of my cds to mp3 so I can listen to them
> from the computer.
> Therefore I would like to know which sound card I should get in order
> not to lose any sound quality. Besides that, I am planning to do the job
> using linux and hence I need to know which card is thes best for the task
> and if it is supported under linux.
It's not the sound card that matters at all, it is your cd-rom. The cd-rom
never converts the cd-audio to analog, so the sound card is not involved.
Buy a plextor or yamaha cd-rom for the highest quality, but what ever you have
may already support digital audio extraction. Check out cdparanoia to rip
cd-audio. Check out www.freshmeat.net to find a good mp3 converter.
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Maybe I'm all wet, but it seems to me that the CD device produces _both_
analog
(that is, audio) _and_ digital outputs. If you have the right software, you
can use the digital output of an audio disk; if not, you have only the analog
--which goes thru the sound-card--to work with. You need the right software
to read the audio fs and decode it. I'm afraid I don't know what that is,
but that's the story. Somone here will tell you, I'm sure.
BOL --doug
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