two audio cards?

[Jeffrey Ross]

stan wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:47:20 -0400
> "Ferguson, Michael" <ferguson at BRVMLAW.COM> wrote:
>
>   
>> Wow. I never realised this.
>> Let say I have 300 ogg files of 3 differente genre. Therefore I need
>> 3 cards Could it be configured to output the different genres to
>> specific cards.......classical to one card, jazz to another, etc, all
>> playing simultaneously?
>>
>> Thanks  
>>     
>
> I haven't done this, but if I understand the alsa architecture
> correctly the answer is yes.
>
> You would need to set up with speakers on each, and then set the
> application that is playing to use the different cards.  Alsa will have
> assigned them different aliases, and the application will have to be
> configured to use the alias of the card you want for the music genre
> you want.
>
>   
actually its for record or input only on the second card. The built in 
sound card doesn't seem to be fully supported yet for audio input.

Jeff