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I had no success with Lubuntu, but I managed to get it to work under the normal Ubuntu, swapping to ALSA from Pulse was a pretty easy deal. Now I just wonder, OSS4 vs. ALSA which is better.

I used to to do shell programming on it 10 years ago, but I haven't used one before yesterday in a very long while. Voyage didn't work out for me, it's a full client software, awesome at that, but what I need a mouse controllable interface in order to be able to use it on the TV with a wireless mouse. And btw I tried a regular Ubuntu and it indeed discovered the hiface2, but I couldn't manage to get sound out from it. The onboard sound-card worked fine, analog or spdif output.. Funny thing that you mention ALSA, I tried Debian too and that only detected my Ati vga's hdmi sound device, I failed to get root on the live (cd)stick, so I couldn't run alsa config, or whatever the terminal command's name is, but it's certainly weird. I'm installing Lubuntu on the stick right now, we shall see what happens

" supports USB Audio Class 2 (allowing 24bit and up to 192Khz sample rates), and work best on XMOS chipsets" Thank you, this is exactly something I've been looking for, downloading the live cd right now!

Hello! Yesterday after I tried Jplay the first time, It shocked me how much the sound improved over my regular player foo2k, but It's extremely inconvenient and I wouldn't exactly call it stable, or cheap. After reading through the documentation I thought I could play like that with foobar too using fooramdisk combined with fidelizer, needless to say it still didn't sound anything like Jplay, so what I learned that putting the audio files into a ram-disk doesn't really change anything and the problem lies within Windows itself. After some thought to it I decided I would try playback on Linux, having a hiface2 usb converter doesn't make life easy for me, but that's not really relevant, I'll make it work somehow. My question is, what's the best Linux distribution for audiophile music playback. (I have flac files) Does Linux have what it takes to overcame Windows in this aspect, is it a better solution then paying the price for a Mac? I used the forum search and found no similar threads, so here I go :-)