4 Soundcards in a PC - how to select the MCI Audiodevice

[brandelh]

Hi,

I wan't to write a MP3 Player wich is able to select the Soundcard (Audiodevice # standard) where the sound should go to.

Any Ideas.

I want to implement a Player which can play at the same time 4 MP3 each on its own soundcard. But where to get what is installed ?

Bye
Hubert

[einander]

May be this helps:
viewtopic.php?t=4732&highlight=midirequester

[brandelh]

Hi,

I will see if I can use it (can understand it).

Bye
Hubert

[Amiga5k]

As long as each MP3 is playing in a separate channel, I don't think you need more than one sound card (unless it'sa really old one that doesn't have the capability to mix audio "on the fly", etc).

Are you wanting to write a 'tracker' of some kind?

Russell

[brandelh]

Hi,

a friend of mine has a studio with sunbeds. Each sunnbed is connected to a central controllunit and the user can chouse if he want's to hear sound from chanal 1 to 4 from the sunbed in his cabine. The controlunit has audioin (LineIn ?) to connect up to 4 different CD-Players to serve 4 different songs a the same time.

But the CD-players are not build to stand a 16hrs a day job like this and got damaged twice a year. Not only the cost of new players, many of the cheaper once (not dvd players) could only serve normal audio cds. Which have to be changed each hour.

So he thought to buy a Creative Audigy 4 and wanted to get 3 stereo songs out of the 3 analog connectors (for 5.1 sound) + one from the sound on board.
I don't think that sound on board (to bad) and a the 5.1 soundcard can serve 4 lines of stereosound thats good enouth to replace 4 CD-Players.

Am I right ?

I don't have expirience with that. We got a hint, that WinAmp can be started 4 times (installed 4 times too), and each of them can play on another soundcard. Thats our first try at the moment.
If this will not work, I want to build a easy player with 4 songplaylists that serve 4 mp3 to 4 soundcards ... but my problem is, that I am not firm in reading the WinAPI and its hard to understand C/C++ programming.

Bye
Hubert

[Amiga5k]

I bought a soundcard for $10 that has 6 audio outputs (for 5.1 usage). I haven't tried it, but I'm sure there's a way to send individual sounds through those separate ports. This is what the sound driver for this particular card does when it is configured this way (I have it set on the normal configuration currently).

You can try www.pricewatch.com for sound cards that have 4 or 6 output ports that will probably do the trick for you, although some custom programming may be required.

Good Luck!

Russell