DJing with two soundcards
There are DJs that want to listen to music while other music is playing to the audience. E.g. to select new songs to be played.
software
- Winamp (Windows) - Winamp#DJing_with_two_soundcards
- you can specify where the output goes. Start two instances of Winamp, (maybe even safer against crash if you have two installs) and specify output
- foobar2000 (Windows, Linux via Wine) - report received that under Windows you can start two instances and have different outputs set for them
- MediaMonkey (Windows) - you can run two instances and select output
- Tools | Options | General | uncheck "Allow just one instance of MediaMonkey"
- Ubuntu Linux, 8.10 and later with pulseaudio
- Use the Movie Player for the main playlist, and Rhythmbox to prelisten. Move one of the players onto the external soundcard using the pulseaudio volume control.