Tim, Also, DirectSound has a flag that specifies if the audio will play continuously regardless of which application has the focus or if the audio should stop playing if the application loses focus. This is why there is the notion of dropped audio packets in the DirectSound documentation. Of course you probably know all this but it never hurts to be through. Chris Perry Bose Corporation ________________________________ From: wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:48 PM To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Multiple Audio Devices We have a (potential) client who complains that he cannot drive two separate audio cards simultaneously from two separate processes. He says that when one process goes foreground, audio from the other process stops. Before we agree to help them with this, I wanted to ask if there were any architectural reasons for this. I rather strongly suspect it is a coding error on their part, but I may be out of touch. -- Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.