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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998 11:16:50 +0100, "Mark Painter"
<mark@soundout_dot_demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi Folks
>
>I need to be able to play two audio tracks at once, e.g. two  MP3 or one MP3
>and one Wave file on our Radio Stations' PC.
>
>Has anyone any suggestions as to how this can be achieved?
>If I try it with one card (AWE64) the second track can't play as the audio
>device is in use.
>Would two cards enable this? How would I direct the second sound to only the
>second card?

   This is one way of doing this, but not the easiest.  Geting two
soundcards to work in one machine is *not* easy.

    There are a number of special cards out there which will do this
with ease.  Look for DMAN (among others).  They have the aditional
benefit of having S/PDIF output so you can get good quality from them.

>Is there a real-time mixer programme that can achieve this?
>

   This also exists in several forms.


    Notes:
1)  Get hold of the magazines 'Sound on Sound' and 'Future Music'
which cover this area very well.
2)  I suspect that 2 MP3 files would be too much for most machines -
convert the MP3s to WAV for the playback.

   Regards,
         Harry.