I often make the remark that soundcards in laptops/motherboards are bad. F.e. I say “It does not perform better then 12 bit”. What I mean by this is the following: If you turn an analog signal into a digital signal, you introduce errors, because you only have X defined levels, not infite as with analog. read more »

At mpd we are having an issue with high cpu usage, this started when alsa decided to use the great dmix by default. We now know this is caused by resampling. I never hit this problem and kind of assumed that the soundcards it happens on only supported 48khz sample rate. (with some crappy old read more »