[slinkelist] digital from mega-changer to MP3 on hard drive

[Sinan Karasu]

> David Green wrote:
> 
> Looking for comments....
[...]
> I presume I can direct optical digital output from mega changer into
> an appropriately equipped soundcard (SB Live with Optical module).
> The difficulty will be ripping into files with appropriate
> album/artist/title/track info.
> 

I would definitely stay  away from SB Live. Their digital SPDIF input is
horrible.
Only does 48 KHz sampling. 44.1 KHz is digitally resampled thru the DSP
at 48 KHz.
And the when you output it to CD you have to digitally resample it at
44.1 KHz.
And all this with no predefined 0 dB level. I bought one before
discovering all
this, unfortunately then I really needed it so could not return it back.
Ordered and received a http://www.rme-audio.de audio card (digital only)
called hammerfal.`Bought it from sfb electronics in
netherlands(www.sfb.net).
Very good people, strongly recommended. Hammerfall is digital only. It
does require 
some fancy audio program (cakewalk, cubase , logic platinum etc...)
however, it works as God intended digital audio to work. You might
consider
digi96 PRO or PAD card. They are cheaper and one of them ( don't
remember which)
has also analog i/o. Also digi96 drivers for Solaris-sparc , Solaris-x86
Linux etc...
are coming out in december. I use Solaris and Linux for everything
except CDJ :-( 
I recommend that you stay away from SB Live.

Sinan

PS: Stay away from SB Live.