multiple audio sources; controlling volume independently

["T. V. Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

not sure what you're asking. Play with the softvol device, it
amounts to hacking the .asoundrc.

Be careful when you do that, messing up will  lose all sound.

>>>>> "C" == C M Brannon <cmbrannon@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
    C> Hi listers, Several weeks ago, I discovered one of the
    C> joys of software synthesis and ALSA.  I can play music and
    C> listen to synthesized speech through the same set of
    C> headphones!  Using emms or emacspeak-m-player, one can do
    C> all of this from a running emacs!  There's a slight
    C> problem with this setup: the music often drowns the
    C> synthesizer.  Today I found a solution on the ALSA wiki.
    C> You create a "softvol" device, and route the media
    C> player's output through it.  Then, you can set the volume
    C> of the softvol device independently of the synth.  Has
    C> anyone else dealt with this issue?  How did you solve it?
    C> 
    C> -- Chris
    C> 
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