[Icecast] using mulitple sound card inputs

[Leo Currie]

telmnstr at 757.org wrote:
> Yup! I've gotten 7 feeds from a single host. I had 11 PCI sound cards in 
> the machine (FreeBSD w/ Darkice feeding Icecast). After 7 though, it got 
> a bit shaky.

> 
> In this day and age, I would look at the Creative Labs USB sound 
> devices. There is an older one that can be had for $15-20 each. The 
> thing I'm not sure is upon system reboot, with those devices connected 
> to USB hubs, will they order themselves the same? This is important or 
> else audio inputs will end up on the wrong mountpoints.
> 

Pure speculation: I wonder if it would now be more economical to use a 
multi-channel sound card, something like a Delta-1010? Perhaps you could 
fit several of these cards to a single host?

Leo