Re: Playing multichannel audio files
Rodolfo Medina <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.audio.sox |
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Jeremy Nicoll - ml sox users <[email protected]> writes: > On 2018-03-06 09:08, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Hi all sox users. >> >> I have a multichannel audio file: suppose three channels. What I want is to >> listen to that file by listening to each of those channels through a >> different loud speaker. In order to do so, I imagine ...though I may be wrong... >> each channel being sent to a different sound card. Can sox perform that, >> and how? In sox manual I couldn't find an answer. > > What sound hardware does your computer have? Do you actually have more than > one soundcard? > > Since you posted on Debian-Users, is there a way in Debian to list what these > separate sound devices' names are? Two different soundcards, and three devices, seem to be detected: $ arecord -l **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC662 rev3 Analog [ALC662 rev3 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 2: ALC662 rev3 Alt Analog [ALC662 rev3 Alt Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: Device [USB Audio Device], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > Do you have a way (forgetting your audio file for a moment) of getting sound > out to three separate places? If I could have sox (or any other software) send different channel outputs to different soundcards, I could think of plugging a loud speaker into each soundcard and so getting sound out to three separate places... > Do you have any other sound-playing software? I normally use mplayer to play sound. Thanks, Rodolfo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot