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In Reply to: Which Linux kernel and audiophile player? posted by jdruley on February 5, 2007 at 10:51:50:
Hi there.My 2 cents:
I am running Xubuntu with Ingo Molnar realtime kernel patches!
2.6.19 is running quite stabil.I have a DDDAC USB DAC connected. It works flawless.
I get the Alsa buffer size down to 2 samples without getting XRUNS.
(You can hear it!)XMMS is a good choice. With realtime option switched on it is even better.
The player itself is not really important though. Most of them are quite similar from sound perspectice. They all stream PCM through Alsa and using pretty much the same libraries.
Be careful not to stream through dmix, the ALSA src.
With USB DACs you'll access the port directly anyhow!
No issues with dmix to be expected in this case.For myself I am using now ecasound, which is giving me best results.
I wrote a kind of shell script player, to load tracks into ram, search for files, setting volume asf! Playing from commandline is really great!
The more you get into Unix the more you'll like it!All tracks I play, are played from RAM using tmpfs!
Stay away from small distros. Support is awful! If you're not a super guru you'll spent endless hours on fixing problems, if you manage at all.
The big ones such as Xubuntu deliver all you need to be happy with Linux.Good luck and lots of perseverance!
Cheers
KLS
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