Alban’s blog

If you load the snd-usb-audio without option with the current (2.6.24) linux kernel, your Audiophile USB will send you a nice “noise”.

$ arecord -vvv -D hw:2,1 -c2 -t raw -r48000 -fS24_3BE /tmp/test.raw
Recording raw data '/tmp/test.raw' :
Signed 24 bit Big Endian in 3bytes, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo
Hardware PCM card 2 'Audiophile USB (tm)' device 1 subdevice 0
Its setup is:
[...]
Max peak (12000 samples): 0x007ff202 #################### 99%

But if you take look, it isn’t a noise, it’s a swapped endian stream.

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Behringer makes a box with : a microphone, a mixer, a headphone and the usb sound card for .. 95€. It isn’t the best hardware .. but I’m impressed that a whole (tiny) studio can be purchased for a such low price. A good base to start up which can be upgraded piece by piece later.

I never test the Behringer UCA-202 usb sound card, but
according to Zog, the UCA-202 usb works fine under linux.