dunk wrote: 
> waveinput takes a physical analog input connection on a sound card as a
> continuous feed into squeezebox server, and streams it to squeezeboxes
> 
> you already have a digial stream in your server card, so would be
> outputting it via a line output of your sound card then recapturing it
> and redigitizing it in the same server via an analog sound card line-in
> to  be streamed digitally.
> 
> it can be done on windows (multiple wavinputs dont work on linux
> usually) but the whole digital-analog-analog-digital is a wasteful
> route
> you dont actually use multiple instances of wavinput, just a single
> instance, but if your windows computer has multiple audio inputs each
> with a line-in, they appear in squeezebox as wavin:0 wavin:1 wavin:2 etc

Just for clairifcation as OP has come to a decision.

Waveinput inputs do NOT have to be "physical" - they can be virtual or
networked (e.g. useing pulseaudio)  - non physical input are usually
more complicated to use.


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