GNU/Linux Audio Fun Fun Fun
From
L Thorpe@21:1/5 to
All on Thu Nov 23 19:53:47 2023
You want audio? I'll give you fucking audio, GNU/Linux style.
First, you got to have a high end sound card. That motherboard
crap won't cut it.
I gots a SB Audigy 5/RX. Eat your hearts out, mutherfuckers (but
it ain't that expensive).
How do it work under GNU/Linux? Here's how I does it, with
only ALSA (stick that pulse audio and pipewire up your fucking
rectum).
Load kernel modules:
modprobe snd-emu10k1
modprobe snd-hda-codec-ca0132
modprobe snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1
Now let's see what we's got (pay attention, white boy, else you
gets fucking lost):
# aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
iec958
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
default:CARD=Audigy2
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Audigy2
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Front output / input
rear:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Rear speakers
center_lfe:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Center and Subwoofer speakers
side:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Side speakers
surround21:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers surround40:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
Wow! Nice! How 'bout recording:
# arecord -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
iec958
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
default:CARD=Audigy2
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Audigy2
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Front output / input
rear:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Rear speakers
center_lfe:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Center and Subwoofer speakers
side:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 5/Rx [SB1550], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Side speakers
Tremendous! Now give us the real deal with this "bad boy:"
# amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 31
Mono: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Front Left: Capture 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Capture 31 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Tone',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Bass',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 40
Front Left: 33 [82%]
Front Right: 33 [82%]
Simple mixer control 'Treble',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 40
Front Left: 33 [82%]
Front Right: 33 [82%]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: cvolume
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 100
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'PCM Center',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 100
Mono: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'PCM Front',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'PCM LFE',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 100
Mono: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'PCM Out Path & Mute',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'pre 3D' 'post 3D'
Item0: 'pre 3D'
Simple mixer control 'PCM Side',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'PCM Surround',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 100
Mono: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 100
Mono: Playback 90 [90%] [-4.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Side',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'Synth',0
Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
Front Left: Playback 89 [89%] [-4.40dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 89 [89%] [-4.40dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'Wave',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 89 [89%] [-4.40dB]
Front Right: Playback 89 [89%] [-4.40dB]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'CD',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Mono: Capture 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost (+20dB)',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Extra Boost',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Select',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'Mic1' 'Mic2'
Item0: 'Mic1'
Simple mixer control 'Video',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Phone',0
Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Mono: Capture 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Phone Output',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-46.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Optical',0
Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Optical Raw',0
Capabilities: pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Mono:
Front Left: Playback [off]
Front Right: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Limits: Capture 0 - 15
Mono: Capture 0 [0%] [-45.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Aux',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 31
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Aux2',0
Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Simple mixer control 'Mono Output Select',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'Mix' 'Mic'
Item0: 'Mic'
Simple mixer control 'AMic',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'Analog Mix',0
Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Simple mixer control 'Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Audigy CD',0
Capabilities: pvolume cvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 100 Capture 0 - 100
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Capture 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] Simple mixer control 'External Amplifier',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Hoo, hoo, baby! That is GNU/Linux audio in the flesh!
All you you Ubuntu/Mint jockeys can drool with envy, cuz your
piddly diddly systems could never take you to this level.
And the same is true for Microslop Winblows.
Now I gots to go listen to sum "Siouxie and the Banshees"
in unparalleled glory through my Bose speakers on my GNU/Linux
machine.
Heeeeeeeee, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
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From
DFS@21:1/5 to
Joel on Fri Nov 24 19:28:12 2023
On 11/24/2023 5:33 PM, Joel wrote:
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
On 11/23/2023 2:53 PM, Larry "L Thorpe" Piet wrote:
Now I gots to go listen to sum "Siouxie and the Banshees"
gag
Yeah, but it's still an amusing image to see Russell with some
overpriced gear, listening to such mediocre shit.
LOL! Feeb recommended some other crap music in the past. The loser
dweeb even poo-pooed Mozart, maestro of all maestros. His taste in
music is as bad as his taste in software.
I tried to listen to Siouxsie and the Banshees decades ago. Couldn't
get into it, or any punk music. I was big into Judas Priest and heavy
metal in high school.
I did see Iggy Pop in college - the wackjob hung his dick out right
there onstage. But it was a fun show because it was a small venue and
everyone was drunk and mosh-dancing.
in unparalleled glory through my Bose speakers on my GNU/Linux
machine.
For a better listening experience, plug in some Sennheiser headphones.
I still have my HD580s from way back.
Correct, Russell is full of shit, his sound card isn't better than my motherboard, his Bose speakers are inferior to my $90 street price
50 mm driver-based headphones (they were a "last year's" model deal on Amazon, far cheaper than high end headphones but with virtually as
good sound reproduction). What he thinks is so special, about his
gear, does utterly zero to make it better than a competitively priced
setup.
I think a decent sound card is an improvement over most onboard audio,
but lots of people recommend external USB DACs and good speakers or
headphones.
The first time I played music over those Sennheiser headphones I was
blown away with how different and better/crisper the recordings sounded.
But they're large, over-the-ear enclosures and not so comfortable so I
never spent much time using them. Now I just use cheap, old Skull Candy
Uprock headphones that I rest halfway on my ears.
My hearing is kind of fucked up, anyway. In 2001 I woke up with ringing
in my ears. It lasted like 2 hours, and when it went away I was left
with 1/2 the high-pitched frequency hearing in my right ear. Both my grandfather and father had hearing issues later in life, too.
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From
Joel@21:1/5 to
DFS on Fri Nov 24 19:56:39 2023
DFS <
nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
On 11/24/2023 5:33 PM, Joel wrote:
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
On 11/23/2023 2:53 PM, Larry "L Thorpe" Piet wrote:
in unparalleled glory through my Bose speakers on my GNU/Linux
machine.
For a better listening experience, plug in some Sennheiser headphones.
I still have my HD580s from way back.
Correct, Russell is full of shit, his sound card isn't better than my
motherboard, his Bose speakers are inferior to my $90 street price
50 mm driver-based headphones (they were a "last year's" model deal on
Amazon, far cheaper than high end headphones but with virtually as
good sound reproduction). What he thinks is so special, about his
gear, does utterly zero to make it better than a competitively priced
setup.
I think a decent sound card is an improvement over most onboard audio,
His card can probably do 5.1 or 7.1, or whatever, but who cares? Who
is really getting something out of that, other than frivolous
purchasing?
but lots of people recommend external USB DACs and good speakers or >headphones.
It's voodoo electronics, I'm telling you, I'm a true blue audiophile,
but I've gotten killer gear both when CDDA was dominant and MP3. It
just takes knowing what actually makes a difference, my headphones do
make a difference, my $30 Logitech self-powered speakers do a decent
job feeding them sound but with hardware volume control, as the
motherboard with its 24/192 DACs does a fine job feeding them. I
would definitely know if I were missing something, I've been a critic
of this stuff since I was a kid.
The first time I played music over those Sennheiser headphones I was
blown away with how different and better/crisper the recordings sounded.
But they're large, over-the-ear enclosures and not so comfortable so I
never spent much time using them.
My DVD player supports DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD discs. I only had
one of each, the DVD-A one came with my PCI sound card for my 500 MHz
and 1.6 GHz computers* (a Sound Blaster model with 24/192), and I had
the SACD of Pink Floyd - "The Dark Side Of The Moon". The latter, on
my Sony MDR-V600 headphones I had when I had the sound system running
before I moved, was literally like listening to the master tape.
* Side note, they had PCI WiFi adapters, as well, the last of which in
the ancient box which then in the less-ancient box needed some driver
hacking to work with Win7, although that resolved it, after that there
was one more, faster, PCI card that wound up in my 2010 i5 computer,
eventually being replaced because of old age failure with a PCI-e
802.11ac card. The new machine's motherboard has 802.11ax/WiFi6 built
in.
Now I just use cheap, old Skull Candy
Uprock headphones that I rest halfway on my ears.
My hearing is kind of fucked up, anyway. In 2001 I woke up with ringing
in my ears. It lasted like 2 hours, and when it went away I was left
with 1/2 the high-pitched frequency hearing in my right ear. Both my >grandfather and father had hearing issues later in life, too.
Sorry to hear.
--
Joel W. Crump
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From
Physfitfreak@21:1/5 to
chrisv on Sun Nov 26 14:53:56 2023
On 11/26/2023 9:03 AM, chrisv wrote:
-hh wrote:
Just being over age 50 is often enough to not bother (justify) paying for high
end audio gear anymore, due to normal hearing loss..without any accidents.
That depends... There's still plenty to go wrong with the ~12 kHz
that we _can_ hear.
Plus most guys don’t bother taking care of their hearing by faithfully wearing
hearing protection. Case in point, by always wearing muffs on the range, and
also always when using the lawnmower, leaf blower, every power tool, etc…
Brief exposures (like cutting a couple boards with a circle saw) are
not to be worried about, IMO. But I started wearing muffs while
mowing the lawn decades ago, after noticing some ringing. I thought
"If I'm going to damage my hearing, it will be by doing something fun,
not mowing my damn lawn."
Excessive noise is the obvious culprit, and are generally rare, but the pernicious factors in the form of chemicals (insecticides and food
additives, etc) are the widespread reason behind losing the hearing in
just about everybody in later years.
For instance, potassium bromate is still being legally used as food
additive in almost all U.S. states. It is a substance that's known since
early 1970s to cause deafness and renal failure. Europeans have since
banned its use. But in USA, only after it was found to also be a
carcinogen, California banned its use. Yet many other states are to this
day still using it!
It works nicely for the U.S. government, that's why. It doesn't kill or
disable you until after you retire. Any poison that only kills you soon
after you retire is literal gold for the government. Alcohol, nicotine,
... additives, anything of that sort.
I suspect that hearing problems in DFS's line of cro-magnons were caused
not by the cro-magnon genetics, but by perhaps lavish use of
insecticides or high consumption of flour in the household, which always contains added potassium bromate. If your flour is powdery, it has the
bromate, that's why it is powdery. Otherwise, it cakes rapidly.
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