[olug] linux streaming servers

[Jay Swackhamer]

The money is the issue for the student-run non-funded(maybe soon) station.

Currently the sound card is a PCI conexant riptide audio card(winmodem
combo)  A soundblaster would be an upgrade........


> "Jay Swackhamer" <Jay at RebootTheUser.com> wrote:
> |The streaming server is up and running for MavRadio.org
> |just point xmms http://www.MavRadio.org:8000
> |
> |They are still tweaking the volumes for more clarity, but it's working
>
> I assisted one of our customers/sister-companies setting up their
> Internet radio station a number of years ago.  We had similar problems
> and the audio engineer said that the volume problem (among other things)
> was due to the fact that we were using "consumer" grade audio cards.
>
> There are high end audiophile audio cards that use "balanced" inputs.
> Standard SoundBlaster-type audiocards use "un-balanced" inputs.  From
> what I understand about the differences, it is that the un-balanced type
> of audio cards use a single ground, where the high end cards have a
> separate ground for each channel and the difference between ground and
> the audio signal can be "balanced" correctly...
>
> If you are interested, the recommended audio card at that time was the
> CardDeluxe by DigitalAudio.com (http://www.digitalaudio.com/).  Their
> current web site shows the latest card at $399...a bit more than a $50
> SoundBlaster... :)
>
> Just a note from the trenches.  Good luck!
>
> Dan
>
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