Controlling two soundcards

[wetwired]

I want to send different sounds to different soundcards. I have two cheap USB soundcards connected to the PC that runs Housebot server, one card drives speakers in the basement and the other the groundfloor. I want to send different sounds to these soundcards using different tasks. What is the best way to do this? Has anyone else done this?

Right now I´m am using windows "sndrec32.exe" to play sounds with the parameters "/play /close test.wav" and it works like a charm, does a player with similar commandline parameters exist that also can route the sound through different soundcards?

Any suggestions are appreciated.

[ScottBot]

I use mplayer (I don't remember why I ended using that particular app)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer

You can use the -ao parameter to specify the output driver/sound-card.

[wetwired]

ok! Thanks I´ll try it tonight.

[markd]

I use winamp to do multizone audio, but it would work for this too. Don't know if it does command line, but you can do it with the HB device.

[wetwired]

ScottBot: i can find the -ao parameter for selecting driver but not the soundcard, how do I do that?
markd: I looked at the winamp device but couldn´t find a property to select the soundcard to use...

thanks for the help.

[roussell]

For winamp, you would have two separate instances of the winamp.exe, each instance in it's own winamp folder and each instance pointed to a different soundcard. In HB you would then create two winamp devices, one pointed to each winamp.exe.

Terry

[markd]

and as to where in Winamp, Options/Preferences/Plug-ins/Output/Configure/Device tab, top box.

Markd

[ScottBot]

ScottBot: i can find the -ao parameter for selecting driver but not the soundcard, how do I do that?
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I use the 'dsound' (Windows direct sound) driver which lets me select the output. My command line option for AO is

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-ao dsound:device=2

[wetwired]

I got it to work. I went with the winamp option and can now send different sounds to different speakers, thanks for the help.