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Two CD Drives, Two Sound Cards, Win XP

I'm putting a home radio station studio together for fun.

I have a good 7 channel mixer and two turntables.

I'm putting together a stand-alone PC to play two CDs via two channels in the mixer.  That will allow me to cue and listen to a CD on one drive whilst the other CD is playing in the other drive.  The analog output from each sound card will connect to the mixer via a separate channel.  I have two CD drives and two sound cards (one card on the motherboard, one card in a PCI slot) on the PC.

Does anyone know:

1. Is it possible to run two sound cards in Windows XP?

2. Is it possible to run two CD player controls (maybe two simultaneous media players - one for each CD drive)

Thanks,  Mark.

Two CD Drives, Two Sound Cards, Win XP

Reply #1 –
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I'm putting a home radio station studio together for fun.

I have a good 7 channel mixer and two turntables.

I'm putting together a stand-alone PC to play two CDs via two channels in the mixer.  That will allow me to cue and listen to a CD on one drive whilst the other CD is playing in the other drive.  The analog output from each sound card will connect to the mixer via a separate channel.  I have two CD drives and two sound cards (one card on the motherboard, one card in a PCI slot) on the PC.

Does anyone know:

1. Is it possible to run two sound cards in Windows XP?


Depends on the sound cards. I have run 4 M-Audio delta series cards along with the on-board audio interface, in one PC.

OTOH, some of the eMu cards can run only one of them per computer, along with presumably as many of most other cards as you'd want.

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2. Is it possible to run two CD player controls (maybe two simultaneous media players - one for each CD drive)


No experience with that have I.

Two CD Drives, Two Sound Cards, Win XP

Reply #2 –
Thanks Arnold.
 

Two CD Drives, Two Sound Cards, Win XP

Reply #3 –
I don't see any problems with doing that.  You can definitely have 2 instances of media players playing from different CD drives.  If you get a media player that can specify its output device (anything that can do ASIO and then some; such as Foobar) then you can have each drive playing to a different sound card.  I personally have never heard of sound cards limiting themselves to one per computer; if so that's probably a driver thing and having 2 different ones should be completely fine in that case (as they'd have different drivers).