I run FreeBSD on all of my machines. Other than games (which I have an Xbox 360 for), it meets all of my needs.

I run FreeBSD, but I assume that is close enough: Playing: Amarok Ripping: crip Transcoding: my own scripts

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I use FreeBSD on all of my machines. I find FreeBSD to be much more consistent and robust operating system than any Linux distro, but your mileage may vary. Right now, I'm using KDE as my desktop environment and I plan on continuing to use it unless they really mess up KDE 4 (though it looks...

Works fine in FreeBSD with the latest version of Amarok and libxine. I would suggest upgrading your version of libxine, if possible.

I use a MicroDAC under FreeBSD (I know, I know, it isn't Linux) without any issues. It was as easy as plug and play. Should be the same for Linux.

I would say its an X3 issue, since the time for OGG files on my Karma are always correct.

Quote: Originally Posted by jinp6301 bump for more info to clarify: if i take care of my wires better, will my grado stop cutting out? Probably not. I would get it repaired.

I've been running FreeBSD as my desktop for a while now. I'm using Amarok/xmms in conjuction with a MicroDAC to play my music. In FreeBSD, setting it up was as easy as plug and play.

Probably a bug. I have the same issue when using the ReplayGain script. I have always assumed it was the script.

I have a Lite-On combo drive that seems to be working pretty well. Here is the dmesg output on my FreeBSD box: Code: acd0: CDRW <LITE-ON COMBO LTC-48161H/KGH1> at ata0-master UDMA33 I use cdparanoia to rip all my CDs. I think it does an excellent job.

Just a quick look through FreeBSD's ports system gives me a few different options for Monkey audio files: Port: bmp-mac-0.1.1 Path: /usr/ports/audio/bmp-mac Info: Monkey's Audio Codec non-win32 port WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/ Port: gstreamer-monkeysaudio-0.8.0_11...

Well, I tried jackd again tonight. Again, it was still unusable as a user with the oss driver. The portaudio driver didn't work at all. When trying to run it with realtime priority as root, the program consistently crashed. Overall, not very promising. I can get sound, but it constantly drops...

Quote: Originally Posted by elvisbot OSS is the driver I need rather than CoreAudio. CoreAudio does not support upsampling to x/96, only 24/48. Specifically, I need to build or find fink_oss.so and fink_oss.la. I have found liboss, which "is a sound API to provide OSS support in ... OS...

Well, the portaudio driver will not work unless you have the portaudio libraries and whatnot installed. I know it's in FreeBSD's ports, but I'm not sure if it is in Fink or DarwinPorts. The coreaudio case looks like it finds a driver, but doesn't have permission to use it. Have you tried...