Multizone Playback

 

Media Center is now multi-zone capable -- meaning it can control multiple soundcards at a time. Each zone has its own playback and DSP settings. You can quickly flip between zones.

This is ideal for DJ's that preview on headphones while playing for the audience, or people with a few rooms in their house. Each zone has its own Playing Now window and each can be playing at the same time. Play completely different playlists at the same time!

And even if you have only one soundcard, you can still use multizone playback. Use it to manage several playlists during a party (one for rock, another for jazz) and just go back and forth between them while keeping the current position for each one.

To create zones

1.

Click on in the Player Window and select Zone Manager

2.

Select Add

3.

Select your new zone in the list, and then select Configure.

4.

Set your Playback Options. For details, see Playback Settings.

Press Ctrl + T to Toggle between the zones, or click on the Playback Options button, select Playback Zone and choose the zone from the list.

Volume Control

Map Stereo Pairs of a Single Multichannel Soundcard

You can map stereo pairs of a single multichannel soundcard by using WaveOut and DirectSound. However, you can only have one zone using ASIO at a time.