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judetf
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Not a PH question, per se, but caused by PH and maybe someone has some thoughts. Thanks in advance.
I'm running PH on a basic laptop. When I plug a line-out AV cable into the laptop, I can listen to iTunes/WinAmp from the PH machine on my stereo system.
I'm wondering if there is some way to be able to send certain audio out through the internal speakers, without having to unplug the line out. I'm running Windows XP.
(I'd be happy with a solution that required changing WinXP sound/audio settings each time I wanted to switch from one to the other, and I'd be happy to have it only ever be one or the other. I just don't want to have to unplug the cable each time.)
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Sounds  like a USB add-on sound to me. You could also put a splitter on the line and run another speaker and use X10 or Insteon to control the lines… Not a convenient solution.
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In Winamp you can set what output device to use this way:
Options -> Preferences -> Plug-ins -> Output
I think you can do this similar in Tunes
PH itself uses the audio device that was installed first.
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judetf
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Additional research lead to the conclusion that with a laptop, the internal speaker and the external headphone/line out jack are mutually exclusive. When you plug a line-out cable into the jack, it actually physically disables the internal speaker.
The solution, I believe, is as BeachBum suggested, and will require adding a USB sound-card/line-out option. Once installed and available to the OS, I think it will be relatively trivial to differentiate which is used by which application. I'll report back once I have such a device.
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judetf
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Problem solved!!!
Last night I received the $7 ($9 with shipping from Amazon) USB "speaker card," and it works _perfectly_ for what I wanted. My PH laptop now recognizes both the new USB line out as separate from the PC speaker/internal line out. That means I am now able to spit my PH TTS messages from the PC speaker and have iTunes play from the USB line out which is running to an amplifier.
This is great for my setup as I have a KPL button to "read" the forecast to me, and it's located near to where I keep the PH laptop, so the PC speaker is perfect. I don't need/want that to come over my stereo speakers... (I don't keep my stereo receiver on all the time, and usually when I want to hear the forecast (in the AM), it's not on).
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