Foobar2000 Multiple Instances Follow-Up
I forgot to post about this when I found it out a few days ago. Following up on this entry:
If the command-line control functionality continues to work flawlessly with the other instances I plan to install on my server, I'll be a happy guy.
Unfortunately, it doesn't. I successfully "cloned" an FB2K install by customizing the preferences of an instance and then copying the "foobar2000" directory to a new location and renaming it. I even went the extra step of renaming the foobar2000.exe executable to foobar2000-hiq.exe to designate the "high quality" instance. When invoking either of the FB2K executables with command-line parameters, they affect the FB2K instance with the highest process ID (the one launched most recently).
Even if it worked, this would be a hack, since there's the potential that the two instances would go out of sync due to random quirks in how they might crossfade, etc. If Oddcast was able to output multiple streams (similar to Shoutcast, that would be a much more elegant solution.