This question already has an answer here:. 12 answers Googling for solutions to this problem seems to lead to third party solutions like, sometimes with scripting like. I'm no stranger to either, but It seems crazy to me that there isn't a better solution. I'm on Windows 10. I use HDMI audio to my monitor from my AMD video card, and I use a set of headphones plugged into the back of my motherboard.
I've got several audio outputs from my PC - my speakers, my. All the annoying youtube videos, etc should be heard on internal speakers of Mac. For me, but I can at least choose a different audio playbackdevice than Windows default. On Mac it is possible to choose different interfaces as Input and Output device in. On Windows it's not possible to create aggregate devices at a system level.
I use both often, but right now I need to switch the default playback device to switch between them (sometimes, for reasons I don't yet know how to replicate, I even need to fully disable the device currently making sounds. This is what I see in the volume mixer after starting my computer up with AMD HDMI as the default, and opening Chrome to watch a video: When I switch to the Speakers device I see that it is not assigned any applications, and I see no way to reassign applications: I can usually hammer all of the applications over to the Speakers device by switching the default playback device, and usually vice versa. But that sometimes that only switches some applications, and sometimes it doesn't do anything. But that's besides the point. How can I assign an application to a specific audio playback device? The Volume Mixer looks like the right place, but it doesn't seem to do it unless I'm missing something. @HenriqueJung basically because is not a windows task to do so.
What you change in windows is actually default audio device but application can select any audio device it likes. Some apps can handle this change and switch device when user switches default device but many may not.
It's quit easier for OS to change volume of the app than force it to switch audio context. In many cases it may be even not posible. How to handle DTS sound on devices that dose not support it etc.
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That why windows left decision on which sound device should be played music to an application. – May 31 '18 at 13:04. Found a free (GPL) alternate and thought I would throw it out there for anyone else stumbling in from google. Before anyone throws away $20 to CheVolume or installs their adware-containing trial software (at least according to my AV scan on version 0.5.0.0, downloaded directly from their site).
Found something called Audio Router on reddit / github / alternative.to I'm on Win 7 SP1 x64. I've only been playing with it for about 2 minutes but it's correctly playing my Firefox (youtube) audio through the TV and my game (SR3) audio via my headset with minimal effort.
I think I might have a winner. Will report back if I run into any probs. Otherwise, if all works I'll have to kick the guy a few bucks as a thank you; looked like there was a paypal link on his github page. I'm sorry, but Windows just does not have a concept of an application-specific sound output device. Many apps just use whatever the default is. Some (the more elaborate 'multimedia' apps) include an option menu that let you pick a device from a list, and most of them will let you save that as a default, but the app has to be coded to provide that option.
I like the scripting option. You start a program via a script that changes the default to whatever you want it to be for that program, then after the program is good and running, it sets the default back to whatever you want most programs to use. PowerShell can do this too. I've worked on multimedia drivers and apps. I am unaware of any place to put 'this is the default device for app X' except in the app's own settings. But, some apps are coded to look for certain types of devices first, or to use e.g.
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The highest-quality device, rather than the default. Windows has a separate setting for 'default communications device' and e.g. Skype will use that device by default, as opposed to the 'ordinary' default device.
Failing that, comm programs may look for a device with a mic input (the HDMI sound device, for example, does not have one) and use that. – Sep 6 '15 at 20:23.
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