Hi,

Does any one know of some software for xp that will play audio files and give an output from say the serial port to a pic when it starts playing, and another signal when it stops?

This is what I would like to do; select an audio file. When it plays, a signal is sent from pc to pic to start recording. When the audio stops another signal is sent to the pic to stop recording.

I thought about sending the audio out on the left channel and sending control pulses out on the right channel from the stereo jack; but I could not find any audio software that would allow me to do this.

Any help/ideas would be a great help, I'm sure I'm not the first to have this problem.

Thank you for your time

Nick