Playing two different MP3 files at the same time?

[Ferguson, Michael]

Hello There,

Can I butt in here? I have a question in this regard.
My background is that I have four different Linux boxes. One for Classical, one for Easy Listening, one for Theocratic, and finally Motivational/instructional.
Each Linux box's sound card output is connected to my amplifier/sound system.
These Linux boxes run 24/7 and I can simply switch to any genre at the amp.

I would like to move all these music category onto one Linux box, in separate directories, and still be able to have all four selections playing/outputting to the amplifier as before. I guess I could open 4 different desktops and launch a player on each desktop. YES/NO?

In this case would I need 4 different sound cards?

Thanks, greetings and best wishes.





-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of patrick
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 3:17 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Playing two different MP3 files at the same time?

Thanks, looks like it works fine with one card. Mplayer lets you pick through which channel you want to play the audio, so you could stream one audio file through the left channel, and a different one through the right. With a splitter, you can then have different stuff playing in two different rooms.

Patrick

On 4/26/06,

On 4/26/06, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at pomec.net> wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> I don't use Fedora to play mp3 files, but I do use Fedora to play flac 
> (see Sound Juice Ripper) files all of the time. With this it is easy 
> to play two or more files at the same time.  I have tried as many as 
> three files through one sound card at the same time.  I would not 
> think you will need separate sound cards to do what you want.
>
> Greg Ennis
>
>
> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 17:43 -0700, patrick wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience with multiple sound cards in a PC 
> > running Fedora? I'm wondering if there's any sort of practical limit 
> > besides the number of ISA or PCI slots in a machine? And more 
> > specifically, let's say you have 3 or 4 sound cards and an 
> > adequately-powered machine, would Linux have any trouble playing 
> > different MP3 files to each card?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Patrick
> >
>
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