I've done much searching, but I can't seem to find the best solution, so I'm posting this in hopes that someone else has the same type of project with some success.
I have pairs of speakers in 4 rooms, powered by an 8-channel amp. I have a Windows 7 laptop with multiple audio output devices connected to the amp. I would like to use multiple instances of a software squeeze player bound to each audio output device. This works great with SoftSqueeze and SqueezeSlave, but these don't support direct streaming, so Spotify/MOG/etc do not appear as valid apps when controlling the players. SqueezePlay supports direct streaming, but there is no way to select an audio output device. After much Googling, it appears there is no way on Windows 7 to bind an application to a certain audio output device. This led me to PulseAudio on Linux (PulseAudio runs on Windows, but it's only useful as a server, it can't route Windows application audio). With PulseAudio, you can bind applications to audio output devices, and you can do other cool stuff. One example is that one of my audio output devices is an Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA card with 3 pairs of analog outputs for surround sound. PulseAudio would let me use that device as 3 stereo virtual output devices. Thus, I'd really like to pick a linux distro and use PulseAudio, but Googling this leads me to find that SqueezePlay doesn't work with PulseAudio. Everyone has to disable PulseAudio to get any output from SqueezePlay. My only option seems to be to run a virtual machine for each player, and map the audio devices that way. Maybe I can use VMWare Player on Linux with PulseAudio so I can still split my surround card(s) into multiple stereo cards... What would you do? -- dangerusty ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dangerusty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=54208 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93548 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
