Is it possible to make a sound adapter card available as a shared resource?@

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Under Win2000 or WinXP is it possible to make an installed
soundblaster card available to other network users as a network
resource?

I want to have audio output from a couple of client PC's come out on a
server PC which contains the sound card and is sited next to my
amplifiers and speakers.
 
No, it is not. You could save sound files to a shared network directory and
have them play on the computer with the sound card but that's probably about
it.
 
you could do it with a remote desktop program, at least some of them you can
set to repeat the sounds from the remote pc on the local one. it may also
be possible with something like net meeting or another voice conference app
if you can select the sound input device to be the wave out mix device. it
wouldn't surprise me if there were other programs that stream audio and/or
video from remote machines that could do it also.
 
you could do it with a remote desktop program, at least some of them you can
set to repeat the sounds from the remote pc on the local one. it may also
be possible with something like net meeting or another voice conference app
if you can select the sound input device to be the wave out mix device. it
wouldn't surprise me if there were other programs that stream audio and/or
video from remote machines that could do it also.
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Certainly Windows Remote Desktop wilt bring over the sound from the
remote PC and seems to create a virtual sound device to do this. The
quality is not too good though, it sounds like 8 bit sampling and a
low bit rate.

But I am sure you are right; that there is a product out there. I am
just having trouble tracking it down!
 
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