I'm just starting out with zones. . .
Zone1 (Den) pushes through my SB Audigy X-Fi.
Zone2 (Kitchen) pushes through the integrated realtek sound on my mainboard
By fooling around with the timing setting, I can get both zones to sync---but only 'till it switches tracks. Then the Den Zone jumps ahead by about 500ms. I have to resync after every song.
I'll dump some info that may be relevant below for your inspection. Please let me know if you have any ideas, or if you need more details / screens.
Den Zone ConfigKitchen Zone ConfigSystem Info:Media Center 14.0.155 Registered -- F:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 14\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 3 (Build 2600)
Intel Core 2 2998 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 3144 MB, Free - 2232 MB
Internet Explorer: 8.0.6001.18702 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82.2900 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.0.2900 / Shell32.dll: 6.0.2900 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive D: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive E: SONY DVD RW DRU-820A Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive D: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GP08NU20 Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:24 MaxSpeed:24 BurnProof:Yes
Drive E: SONY DVD RW DRU-820A Addr: 0:0:0 Speed:40 MaxSpeed:40 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No /
Portable Device Info
Removed devices:
Device info dump for 'Apple iPod Nano 5th Gen (G:)':
WMDMName: LACHLAN'S I (G:)
DeviceUID: $$?$storage#removablemedia#8&eec5652&0&rm#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}$0
CanonicalName: \\?\storage#removablemedia#8&eec5652&0&rm#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}$0
VendorName: ; VendorID: 1452
ProductID: 4709; FirmwareVersion: 1.70
WMDMSerialNumber: NULL
WMDMWriteOurOwnPlaylists:
DeviceType: 3; DeviceID: 000A2700200C3699&AAPL0; DeviceName: iPod; UnsupportedDevice: 0
IsDrive: 1; DriveLetter: G:; DrivePath: ; MainDriveLetter: G:
IsJanusCapable: ; IsIpod: 1;iTunesDBVersion: 0
SupportsAlbumArt: 0; AlbumArtEnabled: 1; CoverArtTagRule: 0; SaveCoverArtToFolderJPG:
GetPlayStatsFromDevice: 0; SupportsFolders: -1; PlaylistFormat: 0; EjectMode: 0; AlwaysPumpCOMMessages: 0
SupportedFileTypes: mp3;wav;mp4;aa;m4a;m4b;m4p;aiff;aif;mov;m4v
MemoryTypes: Internal Memory
InstallURL:
ApplicationName: Media Center
ImageName: Apple iPod Nano 5G (blue)
RootBasePath:
AudioBasePath: G:\iPod_Control\Music\
ImageBasePath: Photos\
VideoBasePath: G:\iPod_Control\Music\
DataBasePath: Data\
PlaylistBasePath: ROOT\
DatabaseBasePath:
AudibleBasePath: Audible\
MatchKeyExpression: If(IsEqual([Media Type], Image), Clean([Name], 3)[File Size, 0], [Name]Clean([Artist], 2)[Album][Genre]TrackNumber()[Media Type])
ChangeKeyExpression: If(IsEqual([Media Type], Image), , [Rating][Composer])
ResyncIfDateModified: 1
Interface Plugins:
last.fm (Active)
Library Server (Active)
TiVo Server (Active)