[Wednesday: 3.2 miles; Saturday: 7 miles; today: 3.2 miles]
Hi,
I’ve been spending some time in the last week on the radio station computer replacement project.
You may recall that the older but fancy server has an older but fancy sound card and I have to use a slightly older version of the Linux kernel to be able to use that old card.
It almost works, but the finish markers in all of my database of sound files aren’t honored for some reason and almost every cut has some trimming at the end. So it doesn’t sound very good.
I did a number of things to try to fix the problem.
But then a couple of weeks ago I installed the latest software on a different system and everything works fine with the built-in sound system. My conclusion is that my fancy sound card is handled differently and something in that handling is likely the problem.
So I ordered a very cheap PCIe sound card from Amazon and I installed that. The system couldn’t see it. Some of the card pins looked terrible and probably didn’t connect like they should in the card slot. So I’m returning that and they will send me a replacement… sometime in August.
Yesterday I was needing to go to Tuscaloosa so I looked on Facebook Marketplace and saw a USB sound device available along with a microphone in a package deal… some podcaster probably either quit or got himself an upgrade.
I brought that home and plugged it into the cheap Intel Nuc and it showed up fine as an audio output device.
I plugged it into the server and it doesn’t show up at all.
I’m getting a bit tired of this!
I have a few more tricks up my sleeve. I have not given up yet.