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More => Old Versions => Media Center 14 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Tolga on February 12, 2010, 06:01:16 pm
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Background:
While DJing, I need to feed music from one sound card to the external speakers while listing to music from the headset. I found that using split view and zones within one MC is very cofusing and difficult to control because I need to often switch zones (dangerous while live) and I cannot see the play progress bar of two zones at the same time. Therefore I want to use multiple instances of MC running side by side, one for the external speakers the other for the headset.
Almost working current solution:
Everything seems to work as almost expected. I can see two zones playing side by side and I can carry music from one MC instance to the playlist of the other. Pretty cool. This is probably safer in case of a crash because I barely touch the instance that is playing for the external speaker while working on the other instance. If the version I am working at crashes, the other will continue feeding music.
Questions:
However I have one problem. In this setting one of the MC's seem to be read-only and I am confused which one is. Does the instance that is executed first has priority or the instance that is closed last?
Is there a tag that indicates the read-only state of MC? I would love to put that information to the Play Mode Display on the top to reduce confusion between two instances.