HI Jack, The short answer is yes. Two sound cards in your situation would be a great idea. In my computing environment I have two sound cards. One is my onboard Soundmax digital audio card and the other is an USB Soundblaster Audigy nx. I have configured my USB Soundblaster Audigy card as the default playback and recording device. Then I have configured jaws via it's jfw.ini file to use the onboard Soundmax card as its output. To get jaws to speak through the onboard sound card automatically, why don't I just configure the onboard soundcard to be my default playback sound device I hear you ask? Well the reason why I don't do this is because software dvd players and the Windows media player do not let you change what sound device they should use and I want them coming out of my USB Soundblaster Audigy card. However, I do use Winamp (I suppose I have to since I did help write the scripts for Winamp smile) so playing audio files through different cards isn't really an issue. David Truong E-mail and MS messenger: davidtruong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Skype: blindboxer1967 Home Page: http://members.optusnet.com.au/davidtruong/ -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Lowe Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:03 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Jaws and Total Recorder Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi All, Well, I think I just discovered a reason for having two soundcards. = When using total recorder, it totally shuts down all system sounds so = they don't end up on the stream that's being recorded. Unfortunately, this also includes Jaws. So, would I be able to = alleviate this problem with two sound cards? Having one dedicated to = Jaws and the other to all the computer's system sounds and streaming = audio? I don't mind if it blocks sounds like in coming E-mail and the = like, but I need to hear Jaws! =20 It's strange, because I've used total recorder in the past and I could = still hear Jaws while using it. I wonder if the player that is being = used in conjunction with total recorder makes any difference. For = example, I was using real player to hear the streaming audio while total = recorder was running. However, I've used other sites that used the real player in tandem with = total recorder and I could still hear the audio just find. So, I wonder = if there is some kind of compatibility issue with Jaws, total recorder = and real player. And again, would having Jaws on it's own sound card solve this whole = problem? Jack -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx