Re: Playing multichannel audio files

Måns Rullgård <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.sox
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Rodolfo Medina <[email protected]> writes:

> 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...

Sox can't do that.  However, you can configure ALSA to present a virtual
3-channel card with each channel routed to a different slave device.
See the "multi" plugin documentation here:
https://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html

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