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post #1 of 8
8/20/11 at 7:35pm
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Hi there everyone,

 

I have been reading things long enough and decided to join the forum myself aswell.

Together with that I have been stuck with a question that I couldn't entirely figure out.

 

I know that if I install ASIO with Foobar it has it's own volume slider, and the windows sound slider doesn't work for the music anymore.

But when I want to play a game and listen to music it doesn't work since I can only listen to the Foobar music and my game or youtube is silent although I turned my windows slider to the max.

 

Is it possible to listen to music while gaming (with sound) while using Foobar + ASIO?

 

Thank you and hope to learn a lot more here :)

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post #2 of 8
8/20/11 at 11:10pm
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Originally Posted by Dedicated View Post
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Is it possible to listen to music while gaming (with sound) while using Foobar + ASIO?

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So. it probably isn't in your setup.

 

I tried this by playing VLC (WDM/KS path) and NI Traktor BP SYNC (ASIO path) same time through ESI DuaFire audio interface. Actually, it was possible but, only if the samplerate was equally set .... otherwise grispy audio from ASIO path. Same result with Foobar (ASIO) + NI Traktor SYNC (when DS Wave, but no sound if DS).

 

jiiteepee

 


Edited by jiiteepee - 8/20/11 at 11:23pm
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post #3 of 8
8/21/11 at 7:53am
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So is this or is this not possible, and more importantly how can I make this work if possible at all?

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post #4 of 8
8/21/11 at 1:06pm

Not necessarily. Whether ASIO takes exclusive hold of the card depends on sound card/drivers. Generally it's desirable for it to behave this way. It's possible to change it with WASAPI (although I haven't checked to see if and how it works.)

 

Does it have to be ASIO? I just switch to something a little less problematic when I'm using music as background for games.


Edited by fufula - 8/21/11 at 1:09pm
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post #5 of 8
8/22/11 at 4:56am
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Well I thought ASIO is the best.

 

I am very new to Foobar and ASIO and don't realy know what is does since a lot of things are a bit too technical for me at the moment since I lack knowledge about audio in general.

So if there are alternatives that work just as well without loss of quality, sure I'd love to hear what possabilities there are.

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post #6 of 8
8/22/11 at 5:31am

In XP I could do this using KS but it doesn't work anymore under win 7 64 (tried KS/WASAPI and ASIO). So I just use ASIO and switch to DS if needed (although I usually can't be bothered and tend to just keep the game sounds muted)


Edited by kalston - 8/22/11 at 5:33am
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post #7 of 8
8/22/11 at 5:55am
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Originally Posted by kalston View Post

In XP I could do this using KS but it doesn't work anymore under win 7 64 (tried KS/WASAPI and ASIO). So I just use ASIO and switch to DS if needed (although I usually can't be bothered and tend to just keep the game sounds muted)



Windows Vista w/SP1 and Windows 7 have WASAPI, which supercedes KS.

 

ASIO is generally used for recording environments, not so much for playback, but there might be some situations where one performs better than the other.

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post #8 of 8
8/22/11 at 6:17am

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Originally Posted by Dedicated View Post

Well I thought ASIO is the best.

 



It allows for bit-perfect playback, so does WASAPI.

 

I use foobar with DS playback myself, which allows me to have both music and in-game sounds playing at the same time. For music listening I switch to a different player. My recommendation would be that you try DS as output in foobar and see if you notice any difference. If you do, you can always switch back to ASIO when you want to listen to music exclusively.

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