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playing multiple .wav files at once

I have written some code that uses the following System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(fileName.wav) to play music in a restaurant with Windows Media Player

This works perfectly

The restaurant has now added a bar that he would like to play diiferent music in the bar so I will need to have Windows Media Player playing more than one song at a time

Any ideas?

razorback041

playing more than one song at once? I don't understand how that would work, how are you seperating the speaker outputs? two soundcards? what is your setup? as I don't think getting wmp to play two songs at once is your answer, but with a setup that can handle it, you could convince me i guess.

prowebinteractive

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yes, two soundcards

Naveen Swamy

DirectSound allows you to play multiple sounds at the same time. Check out the DirectSound sample "DSshow: DirectSound Mixing Test" in the DirectX SDK.

also check out
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q182/7/99.ASP

razorback041

try the enumeration to choose your soundcard
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/directx9_c/Enumerate_DirectSound_Devices_Sample.asp
that will allow you to specify which playback device to use

Just have two seperate wmp's going to different playback devices....I believe the media player classic allowed multiple instances of itself to be opened simultaneously. its free to download.

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Bob Learned

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