Rory,

I'm a linuxer, and it's been a while since I've used it, but I think  
'ecasound' has such capabilities.

If all else fails, you might go the Ardour route anyway--let's face  
it, no 'easy set up' program exist on other platforms to do such a  
task (that *I* know of, anyway)...if Logic Audio and Pro Tools would  
do it, and those are 'easy', than so is Ardour.

-AKJ

Quoting Rory Walsh <rorywalsh@ear.ie>:

> I'm trying to help a friend of mine set up a multi out audio player on
> a linux box for an installation that will loop 4 stereo files
> continuously for several hours. I have been trying to help him set up
> Csound over internet chat for the last hour and we can't seem to get
> Csound to recognise alsa as a real time audio module. He basically
> downloaded the linux installer but when he ran it it didn't put things
> where they were supposed to go so I just got him to cp and ln all the
> relative files to their correct location. Csound will run and does not
> give out about OPCODEDIR, we set this to point to
> /Desktop/Csound5/linux_f32/opcodes, but whenever he tried alsa as an rt
> option it said unknown audio module. By the way there was no plugins
> directory with the installer, only an opcodes one. Anyway I'm not too
> interested in spending the duration of tomorrow morning sending text
> back and forth just to do this simple task so does anyone know of a
> simple multitrack audio player? The simpler the better, command line is
> fine. Ardour is a bit complicated for such a simple task and Audacity
> doesn't support more than 2 channel output. Cheers,
>
> Rory.
>
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