using two sound cards

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi David,

I am puzzled too. I have a bunch of scripts with references to the sox
play command, and would like to continue using them, even though alsa is
installed here with oss emulation. I record with arecord, but am tempted
to take a look at ecasound, which everyone loves. Thanks for the info.

Chuck

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, David Bruzos wrote:

> Hi Chuck:
> I am not sure why you are getting the /dev/dsp1 errors when using sox.
> On my box, the play and rec commands work well with both sound cards
> using the "-d" option to tell sox what card to use.  However, I agree
> with Janina, you should try to use the alsa interface to your soundcard
> whenever possible.  I use mplayer to play audio and ecasound to record
> it.  They both have good CLI interfaces and good support for the alsa
> sound system.  Oh, ecasound can also play sound at the same time that it
> records, and it can play multiple sound files via different sound cards
> at the same time too.  You should really take a look at it.  It is
> a little tricky to use though.
>
> David B.

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