Hello,
Here's the concern I've ran into, in windows I can take a music file and play it over all the outputs on a 5.1 sound cards using foobar with addition plugins w/ no problem, but what I'd like to do is one of the following.

1. > Use XFCE due to less of a resource hog to do the same thing as windows.

2. > Or Play individual songs, say maybe 4 songs outputting to each of the seperate channels on a 5.1 sound card, (better hardware cost management).

3. > My Basic Objective is to either have a Dual Core or something capable to handle this, in order to either have the computer containing 3 pci sound cards and to distribute different songs throughout each channel of each sound card for better hardware cost management.

If need be, I can still have (1) soundcard outputting 1 sound file and play it accross 1 of the sound cards seperate 5.1 channels as for what I originally mention w/ foobar

Heres some reference links I've been looking at
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...hp/t36066.html

http://www.overclock.net/sound-cards...rough-6-a.html


*Also I would need the music to play continously..
I would really appreciate anyones help, and do realize this is alot im looking to do.

Thank You

Michael

Most distros use ALSA as the default system, and it's hard as nuts to configure. In my humble opinion, something as trivial as using a 5.1 speaker set shouldn't require you to read thousands of documentation lines to be able to write an .asoundrc file, which is probably what you need.

So I migrated to OSS4, guess what, it just works out of the box after enabling an option in ossxmix. That's the way I like simple things. I am willing to read whatever is needed and to program my own solutions when there's no other option, but having to read a lot of stuff to plug a speaker set is just idiotic.

could anyone advise me as far as proceeding w/ OSS how to address this issue.

What distribution do you use?

I have my choices between ubuntu & fedora, prefer fedora currently using

I also stumbled across mpg123 utility.

Sorry for the list, here is also all the links I've been researching, If this is of any use

Linux Sound Enviorment
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bondhugu/alsamch.shtml
http://obsidianlake.wordpress.com/20...utputs-in-mpd/
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=523630
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...MP3-HOWTO.html
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=613&cid=1785793
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=613&cid=1785795
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=613&cid=1785798
http://gdam.ffem.org/twosoundcards.html
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...hp/t68115.html
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OSS
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/
http://www.mpg123.de/
http://linux.die.net/man/1/mpg321

Another possible though i was thinking of if its possible to determine which channel of a 5.1 sound card 7.1 etc, correlates to a specific device file, then in turn launch multiple instances of a required audio playback to send to specific /dev files I choose, mpg123 was kinda like what i was thinking

I think that fedora doesn't support oss4 by default, so if you really intend to use it you will need to compile it from source. You can start here:

http://www.opensound.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

thank you, I probably post a update in 72hrs approx to update on things, once oss is installed Ill disable alsa, and would anything else need to be preformed?

I was also looking at Sweep & ReZound, for possibilities, maybe resample mp3 for specific channels ?