[ale] Multi-Channel Whole House Audio

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

ALSA has no problems seeing multiple sound cards and different apps
can access the different sound cards to play audio on them.

That being said, I don't know if there are any existing audio programs
set up to send different streams to different sound cards, but there
is nothing to prevent you from having multiple running instances of
any program (such as aplay) utilizing the different devices.

-Johnny

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So we're working on a project that we may try to sell to the home
> theater/whole house audio segment. Basically the intent is to put perhaps as
> many as 4 (or more if possible) sound cards into a single system and be able
> to port different audio streams out the different sound cards to different
> zones. The intent is to be able to have simultaneous audio playback of
> different sound files to different zones in a whole house audio system.
>
> Looks like it can't be done with I-tunes, but could be done with WinAmp.
> Before I dig deeply into Linux solutions myself, I thought I should ask the
> brain trust.  Any suggestions on feasibility and suggested approach under
> Linux?
>
> Much appreciated,
> Greg Clifton
>
>
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