[Audacity-devel] Adding Support for selectable output per track

[Fred D. <fd...@ui...>]

Hello Everybody!

I'm new to the mailing list, but I've been a long time audacity user, I've 
recently come to want to have the feature to split my audio output per track, 
say if I have a 4 audio track, and a soundcard (like an M-audio Delta 1010) 
that supports multiple outputs, take each track and send it to a different 
output.  As far as I know nobody is already working on this, so I figure if I 
want it that badly, I need to do it myself.

Now,  I don't know that much about programming in C++ (up to this point in my 
life I've mostly written shell scripts), but I've wanted to learn the language 
for awhile, and I figure implementing this feature (or trying to?) would be as 
good a method to learn it as any.

But I figured I should ask first to see if people here think it's a plausible 
project for me to take on and whether or not the resulting patch would be 
something likely to be accepted by the project.  Because otherwise I should 
probably just migrate to software that supports what I would like to do.  (I 
think ardour does, although it's not cross platform, which is one of the 
reasons why I begun using audacity in the first place).

-Fred