More than one instance of WMP at a time?

How can I have more than one instance of WMP open at a time with
Vista?

Thanks

Hi,

No. Only one device (or instance of said device) can be accessing and
controlling the sound card drivers.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Jellyneck" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> How can I have more than one instance of WMP open at a time with
> Vista?
>
> Thanks
>
>

"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:e%...
> Hi,
>
> No. Only one device (or instance of said device) can be accessing and
> controlling the sound card drivers.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>

Actually Rick you can build a quick UI in Visual Basic that has 2 embedded
WMP controls. Both can be active and both playing back source at the same
time. (another example would be to open a couple of web pages with embedded
WMP players and they will both play)
You do get very odd sound output.

The issue with the actual WMP player not allowing more then one running
instance is not actually the control that does the playback but with the UI
around that player being written in such as way as to cause issues with some
of the UI generating code not being reentrant. So no multiple instances of
the app running - but more then one player back in parallel is not a problem
and not related to control of sound cards as your PC will happily beep or
make some other OS generated sound while playback is underway in WMP or an
MP3 player etc. Those issues only used to occur when you had to have
exclusive hardware access to the device driver like in the DOS and Windows
3.x days, plus some of the older driver models .

--
Mike Brannigan
"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:e%...
> Hi,
>
> No. Only one device (or instance of said device) can be accessing and
> controlling the sound card drivers.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Jellyneck" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> How can I have more than one instance of WMP open at a time with
>> Vista?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>

In article <e#>, Rick Rogers says...
> Hi,
>
> No. Only one device (or instance of said device) can be accessing and
> controlling the sound card drivers.
>
>
WMP won't let you open more than one instance. However, you can be
running WMP and Winamp at the same time although it sounds terrible.

--
Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:37:55 -0500, "Rick Rogers" <>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>No. Only one device (or instance of said device) can be accessing and
>controlling the sound card drivers.

The old WMP 6.4 would do it. I always used that instead of the newer
WMP but it won't install with Vista.

Maybe I'll try VLC.