Re: Multiple soundcards in 1 pc, remote controlled ??? Don't know how to start

["rb_ziggy" <rb.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do pretty much the same too...

Two Audigy soundcards with Kx drivers gives 6 stereo zones fed into a
big Russound 12 channel poweramp and distributed from there to
speakers around the house.

Separate Winamp instances streaming to each of the 6 soundcards.

xLobby as the control interface to Winamp with either on a touchscreen
monitor interface (in Kitchen) or on ppc devices connected wirelessly.

I've also found a pretty effective way to properly sync up the 3 zones
on each soundcard to play the same stuff as a 'partymode'.

xL will also link into xAP and I use this to pipe in info such as
temperature, caller id for display on the screens.

One of these days I'll get around to setting it up to send out xAP to
Comfort to do the lighting control.

xL will also accept input and output IR controls via its own usbirt
interface or Girder.  I use the former to control a DAB tuner used as
a line input that can be played to any/all zones via winamp.

In theory... you could use an IR controller into xL and then output
xAP display messages that could be seen on a squeezebox (e.g. now
playing...) but it would be quite hard work!

Richard

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Marcus Warrington
<marcus.warrington@...> wrote:
>
> I am doing something similar except I'm using Xlobby with a
touchscreen
> for control rather than IR.
>
>
>
> I have 2 old SoundBlaster soundcards in the AV PC and use KxProject
> drivers instead of the standard drivers. Once setup this allows each
> card to present itself as 3 stereo sound cards i.e. 6 in total
>
>
>
> I then run several instances of foobar2000 instead of winamp, as I
find
> it MUCH less resource hungry (memory and CPU), each configured to
> playback on one of the "virtual" stereo soundcard. At the
moment I only
> have two zones up and running but it works great.
>
>
>
> HTH
>
>
>
> Marcus
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of egelbeertje
> Sent: 06 December 2006 11:26
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Multiple soundcards in 1 pc, remote controlled ???
> Don't know how to start
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> current config : laptop with external soundblaster running winamp
> 2.91 with an infrared receiver. Xantech stuff controlling the IR,
> external soundblaster connected through distribution amp to 5
> amps/rooms, all ir controlled through the xantech kit.
>
> Problem : winamp playing = same song all through the house and swimbo
> and I have different tastes - now this is a challenge since I
> actually managed to get her into selecting songs/playlists - in the
> end maybe not such a bright idea.....
>
> Question 1 : can I run multiple instances of winamp on the same pc
> using the same IR controller through the serial connection?
> Question 2 : can I put multiple soundcards (or externals on usb) (I'm
> considering upgrading the lappie to a full tower or rackmount) and
> how do I tell winamp to use what card ?
>
> Alternatively I would use a squeezebox or so in every room but the
> amps are in node 1 and I have only speaker cable and ir cable running
> through the house. Even thinking about using the squeezebox as a
> wireless controller/display since I don't have a local amp but that's
> another story.
>
> rgds Rob
>
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