[Novalug] 3 questions regarding sound

[Clif Flynt]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:55:25AM -0500, Jay Hart wrote:
> Q1:  What sound card(s) would people recommend for Linux?

  I tend to use anything Soundblaster compliant.  

> Q2: Is there a way to capture streaming audio?

  Dunno.  But it's easy to record off a microphone - krecord will
do the trick.

> Q3: Do codecs/converters exist for changing .wav or other Windows based
> formats to Ogg Vorbis? MP3s??

  Yes.  Sox is the old standard, also look at lame and some of
the mpeg tools.

  In the Tcl/perl/python world, you can do a lot with the Snack
library.

  Clif

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