Play 2 Songs At Once
Setting up a multi-room audio system in your home can be a daunting task. The increasing availability of wireless speakers has made it a little easier, but getting them all to sync up together can be a headache, and it can also be expensive.
DuoPod is is another double music player app that will help you and your sibling listen to two different songs at once on iPhone. The layout remains the same. When you launch the app for the first time, you will see the screen split into two. But before that, you will see long popup video ads that you just can’t close. Jul 15, 2010 How to play two audio files at the same time and hear them separately i want to play 2 kind of audio songs on my laptop in the same time and hear them seperately. When i connect my laptop to my tv via HDMI i can use my tv audio output to hear music from the tv speakers. In the same time i can use my laptop to hear diffrent kind of music.
One way around this, however, involves the uses of Amazon Echos and Amazon Echo Dots. When you initially set up the devices with the app on your iPhone, it did more than just make them useable. It also added them to your account, and gave you access to a feature called Multi-Room Music that lets you define a group of devices, to which you can then simultaneously stream the same music.
How to Set Up Multi-Room Music on Your Echos and Echo Dots
The steps in this article were performed with the Amazon Alexa app on an iPhone 7 Plus. This guide assumes that you have already completed the initial setup of your Echo devices, and that they are turned on and connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
Additionally, you will need the Amazon Music Unlimited Individual or Family plan to play music on multiple devices at the same time (up to 6 at once). I now have the individual Amazon Music Unlimited plan ($7.99 per month at the time this article was written), as opposed to the $3.99 Echo plan that I had initially. If you do not have the correct plan to take advantage of this feature, Alexa will prompt you to upgrade after you set up Multi-Room Music and try to use it. You can read more about Amazon Music Unlimited here.
Step 1: Open the Amazon Alexa app.
Step 2: Touch the menu icon at the top-left of the screen.
Step 3: Choose the Settings option.
Step 4: Scroll down and select the Multi-Room Music option.
Step 5: Select from one of the default name options, or create your own custom group name, then tap the Next button.
Step 6: Select the Echo devices that you want to add to the group, then tap the Save button.
It will take Alexa a minute or two to connect the devices, then you will be all set to start listening to the same song on multiple Echos at the same time.
If you are having trouble with getting this setup to work properly, this FAQ on Amazon’s site provides some troubleshooting steps you can take.
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I've got 3 videos, all 3 have the same time, same amount of frames, and they only differ in terms of encoding quality.
Now I need them to run side-by-side in synchronized fashion for evaluation purposes. Meaning when I press 'play' BOTH! videos should start. Analogically for stop, forward, backward.
Anyone know any player capable of doing that? By that I mean playing more than 1 video side-by-side..
Platform: Win7
fixer1234Play 2 Songs At The Same Time
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VLC on Windows (1.1.10 or later): Katy perry at grammys 2018.
- Tools → Preferences
- Show Settings → All
- Click Advanced (Click Playlist for VLC 2.1.5)
- Uncheck 'Allow only one running instance'
- Uncheck 'One instance when started from file'
VLC on OS X does not provide the same set of options. You can however run multiple instances from the Terminal with open -a VLC.
If anyone is still interested in this the current version of VLC is able to do this very well without any kind of scripting or add-on. As far as I know however you can only play two files synchronously, not 3.
- To accomplish this simply open VLC and select Media>Open Multiple Files.
- Inside the multiple file windows select add to add the first file.
- After this click on the, 'Show more options,' checkbox followed by the, 'Play another media synchronously,' checkbox at the bottom of the window.
- Select browse next to, 'Extra media,' to add the second file.
- Hit play and the two media files will play simultaneously with a single control window.
Bino is a cross-platform media player commonly recommended for stereoscopic file playback. Among other features, it supports synchronized playback of multiple streams.
The interface may seem a bit primitive or confusing at first, but all you need to do is
- Drag your two video files into Bino
- Select 'Separate streams, left first' input option and 'Left/right' output option
Voilà, you got synchronized playback. The kind where a single set of playback controls is used for all streams so you wouldn't have to 'Invest in some finger weights and train yourself to click very quickly' as @ta.speot.is suggests.
As a bonus, it supports rendering anaglyph 3D.
After doing what Kiran said, open all your videos and run the following AutoHotKey script
This script sends your keystrokes to all running instances of VLC media player. It doesn't work if you use a mouse.
These things should work:
- forward:
Ctrl + right / Alt + right / Shift + right - backward:
Ctrl + left / Alt + left / Shift + left - play/pause:
space - speed up:
] - speed down:
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You can easily add in other keystrokes below the line: ~^down::LoopControlSend(Windows, '^{down}')
This doesn't sync the videos perfectly, so you can use the following 4 keys: left, right, up, down to control the active window only.
leftvery short backward jumprightvery short forward jumpupmedium backward jumpdownmedium forward jump
If you prefer choosing the programs manually, use the following code instead
You can do this with mpv if you don't mind using the command-line:
Notes
In Windows use
;to separate each file name in--external-files(as shown in the 3 videos example). In Linux and macOS use:. Alternatively, use two instances of--external-fileinstead such as:--external-file=input2.mkv --external-file=input3.mkv.Files must all be the same height. If they are not then add the scale, pad, and/or crop filters. See the mpv documentation and FFmpeg Filters for more info.
google probably already told you, you could buy a couple proprietary software who could do that, but just in case : videocompare, tmpgenc, vidlord..
This one's free : http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=138430
(working download links at the end of the thread)
Untested because my wine setup is completely screwed right now. It doesn't do side by side but stacked playback (unless you have a very good lcd you won't be seeing the same thing by playing the same vid in two opposite corners of the screen anyway)
If you think you really need side by side you can use avisynth to do what zimmer said.
(reference forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=139769)
You don't need to do an encode (wich would add its own encoding artifacts anyway), just make a project that would produce an encode of the two vids playing together and skip through the file.
I have the same problem but I have not seen any satisfactory solutions online so far (and believe me I had done a thorough search). At last I come up with my own solution that do not require any extra $. Although this is an old question, I hope my workaround will still be useful.
First, in VLC player, go to Tools->Preferences. Make sure to unchecked 'Allow only one running instance' and 'Pause on the last frame of a video'.
Then, type/edit the following commands in a text file. Open a windows command prompt, and run the commands by copy-and-paste (or save the text and run it as a batch file):
This will open up three VLC instances, each with one of the three videos and all playing in a very synchronized fashion, at least to your eye. However, the three instances will be overlapping each other initially. You will need to click on the title bar of each of the instance to move them around without interrupting the playback so that you can see them playing side-by-side on your screen. This is rather annoying but I consider it a very small inconvenience.
I have tried but it is not possible to control all the instances with hotkeys for stop, forward, backward etc. However, the option '--repeat' will put the videos in a loop, so you can just wait for them to start over.
For very long videos, it may be best to merge the videos in a side-by-side composition into one video using e.g. ffmpeg: https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2013-June/015662.html andhttp://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2013-June/015712.htmlThis command only describes how to merge two videos, but I believe (i.e. I have not test it) you can run the command multiple times to incorporate multiple video files.
I image you can use an AutoHotKey script to send a 'Play' shortcut to all three players in a very short amount of time.
Whether they are able to start playing at exactly the same time is a different matter. Even if they are able to start straight away, I imagine there will be some fighting for the hard drive. Might want to make a RAM disk if this is an important evaluation.
ta.speot.ista.speot.isMany players will be able to output a picture of a single frame in the video.
You could choose multiple points in your videos to compare different types of image (clouds, smoke, trees, grass, motion are good for encoding comparisons) and take the same frames from each of your videos.
You can then make comparisons on a static image rather than trying to spot differences in motion. You can compare on a pixel by pixel basis if you want.
Ensure you don't use JPG as the output though as this is a lossy format and will introduce its own artefacts.
ShevekShevekIf this is not something you do very often, I would use a video editing software like vegas to build one video with all of them showing.
zimmer62zimmer62protected by Community♦Mar 9 '16 at 5:39
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