Кстати, с точки зрения "феншуя", как раз семерка с его WaveRT больше подходит для воспроизведения аудио, чем кривая хрюша.

Цитата:Windows Vista also includes a new Multimedia Class Scheduler Service (MMCSS) that allows multimedia applications to register their time-critical processing to run at an elevated thread priority, thus ensuring prioritized access to CPU resources for time-sensitive DSP processing and mixing tasks.

For audio professionals, a new WaveRT port driver has been introduced that strives to achieve real-time performance by using the multimedia class scheduler and supports audio applications that reduce the latency of audio streams. Consequently, user mode applications can completely govern streams of audio without any code execution in the kernel during runtime. WaveRT allows the user mode application direct access to the internal audio hardware buffers and sample position counters (data in the memory that is mapped to the audio hardware DMA engine). It allows applications to poll the current position in the DMA memory window that the hardware is accessing. WaveRT also supports the notion of a hardware generated clock notification event, similar to the ASIO API, so that applications need not poll for current position if they don't want to.

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а что касается совета для ТС... я бы все таки использовал специализированные решения, сквиз транспортер, олив, диджилонги. Не по феншую ? Тогда есть решения стриминга музыки от ps audio, cyrus, linn, naim, с толковым управлением медиатеки. Дорого? ну тут уж каждый выбирает себе свой компромисс
Или вариант линукс с XBMC, с управлением через андроид или яблоко.