Audacity Forum

This may be the wrong forum for this topic, and if it is, i will gladly repost it on a different forum if someone can tell me another good audio program forum.

I'm trying to setup a hold music system for our company that will play 2 different playlists to 2 different soundcards at the same time, this is the easy part, I plan on using Windows Media Player and Audacity and having them send the audio to 2 different soundcards . But I am only in charge of the computer setup side, and not the actual hold music/messages and would like to set this up to allow the user to remote into the computer, change her files and then run a batch file to start the playback systems. does anyone know if there is a command line argument that can tell Audacity to loop a file? (i'm also looking for the same command for WMP) or does anyone know of a program that I can specify the output soundcard and has the Command line arguments that I'm looking for (start playing a select file/ or playlist and loop the file). I'm also doing this on an extremely tight budget so free programs are prefered!

Thanks,
Chris

My first reactions are that Windows, in spite of all the hoop-la is not a multi-tasking operating system and will not manage two identical real-time events. Custom Programs can be written to simulate that, but it's not going to happen out of the box. People almost always drop back to linux for stuff like that. If you can figure out how to mount five sound cards inside a linux distribution, linux will try to manage them.

Audacity has never been able to manage more than one "Device," so you get one sound card or one capture pathway. Worse, Audacity likes running on really simple computers. It gets unstable if it has to compete with other sound programs or oddball environments.

Outside of that, it's a great idea.

I was going to say I would do that with "Left" carrying one music and "Right" carrying the other. You can loop that forever and just split the sound with appropriate audio "Y" cables after the fact. You can't change that on the fly, however.

Koz

the left and right sound file is an absolutely brilliant idea, and should work perfectly! It shouldn't be an issue to trade off a script for having the user change tracks manually. (she'll be changing it only on a monthly basis so its not a big deal).

Thank you very very much!

Chris