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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.

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.

ok! Thanks I´ll try it tonight.

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.

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.

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

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

Markd

wetwired wrote: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

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