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One of the most frequent questions regarding the TV Headphones we offer is how to control the volume on the headphones independently of a television. This would allow others in the room (not using headphones) to hear the television at a comfortable level (or even muted) while the user of the TV Headphones can set a volume at whatever they choose (ie; loud). My headphones and speakers show up as one device labeled 'Speakers' in the Windows 'Playback Devices' window. Is there any way to set them up to show up separately? I've plugged speakers in the rear jack and headphones in the front and they both play sound. I can't disable only one of them, as they show up as one device. `How can we play sound in speakers and headphones at the same time in Windows 10? 'Windows can't do that!' 'Nope, you can't output sound to two separate destinations.'. How to separate audio outputs in playback devices in Sound & Audio Prior to resetting Windows 10 I had 3 audio outputs, HDMI to TV, analog to monitor and analog to speakers. Since resetting windows both speakers show up as one device labeled 'Speakers' in the Windows 'Playback Devices' window.
What would be ideal is that when I'm running a game or whatever on my monitor and then maybe streaming a youtube, movie, ect.. on my second monitor (the TV), I'd like the game's sound to come from my computer headphones and the video sound to come from my TV. To this point I haven't found a way to make that happen. All that I know to do is go to control panel and set the default sound device to either my TV or my speakers. There's no option to split the sound between the two. So right now if I'm doing separate tasks on two different monitors, all of the sound is either from my speakers or from the TV. I know most dual monitors set ups are run with two actual monitors side by side so this isn't an issue, because of this I can't imagine this is a common issue. plus i know that some games give me the option to do just that but most do not.
So my goal is to have the sound from any task running on my monitor to come out of my headphones. At the same time, any task that is running off of my TV should have its sound running through my TV. Any ideas?
I have both headphones and speakers plugged into my motherboard's analog output jacks. It's a pretty standard Windows desktop setup, the motherboard does HD Audio which has 5 analog jacks which can be programmed to do different things like speakers, headphones, line-in.
Also pretty standard, my computer had the RealTek HD Audio Manager installed, an ASUS skinned one. This does a nice job of popping up a dialog when the user plugs in new speakers and asking them to configure it. Unfortunately it also seems to have a behavior where when I plug in headphones it automatically silences the speakers. In fact both analog outputs show up as a single 'Speaker' device in Windows, there's no way to use them independently.
Headphones Coming Up As Speakers
In theory the Realtek driver has option settings to reconfigure this behavior, to let you use the rear and front jacks as separate devices. But my version didn't have those settings, no 'Playback Device' section at all.
Following some cargo cult advice I solved this problem by just uninstalling Realtek entirely. Goodbye 500 MB of stupid reverb effects I'll never use. Turns out Windows 10 itself can manage the audio hardware with no problems. I did have to unplug and re-plug the devices for Windows to detect them, but now my speakers and headphones show up as separate sound devices.
How Can I Separate My Speaker And Headphones Soundsport
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One of the most frequent questions regarding the TV Headphones we offer is how to control the volume on the headphones independently of a television. This would allow others in the room (not using headphones) to hear the television at a comfortable level (or even muted) while the user of the TV Headphones can set a volume at whatever they choose (ie; loud). My headphones and speakers show up as one device labeled 'Speakers' in the Windows 'Playback Devices' window. Is there any way to set them up to show up separately? I've plugged speakers in the rear jack and headphones in the front and they both play sound. I can't disable only one of them, as they show up as one device. `How can we play sound in speakers and headphones at the same time in Windows 10? 'Windows can't do that!' 'Nope, you can't output sound to two separate destinations.'. How to separate audio outputs in playback devices in Sound & Audio Prior to resetting Windows 10 I had 3 audio outputs, HDMI to TV, analog to monitor and analog to speakers. Since resetting windows both speakers show up as one device labeled 'Speakers' in the Windows 'Playback Devices' window.
What would be ideal is that when I'm running a game or whatever on my monitor and then maybe streaming a youtube, movie, ect.. on my second monitor (the TV), I'd like the game's sound to come from my computer headphones and the video sound to come from my TV. To this point I haven't found a way to make that happen. All that I know to do is go to control panel and set the default sound device to either my TV or my speakers. There's no option to split the sound between the two. So right now if I'm doing separate tasks on two different monitors, all of the sound is either from my speakers or from the TV. I know most dual monitors set ups are run with two actual monitors side by side so this isn't an issue, because of this I can't imagine this is a common issue. plus i know that some games give me the option to do just that but most do not.
So my goal is to have the sound from any task running on my monitor to come out of my headphones. At the same time, any task that is running off of my TV should have its sound running through my TV. Any ideas?
I have both headphones and speakers plugged into my motherboard's analog output jacks. It's a pretty standard Windows desktop setup, the motherboard does HD Audio which has 5 analog jacks which can be programmed to do different things like speakers, headphones, line-in.
Also pretty standard, my computer had the RealTek HD Audio Manager installed, an ASUS skinned one. This does a nice job of popping up a dialog when the user plugs in new speakers and asking them to configure it. Unfortunately it also seems to have a behavior where when I plug in headphones it automatically silences the speakers. In fact both analog outputs show up as a single 'Speaker' device in Windows, there's no way to use them independently.
Headphones Coming Up As Speakers
In theory the Realtek driver has option settings to reconfigure this behavior, to let you use the rear and front jacks as separate devices. But my version didn't have those settings, no 'Playback Device' section at all.
Following some cargo cult advice I solved this problem by just uninstalling Realtek entirely. Goodbye 500 MB of stupid reverb effects I'll never use. Turns out Windows 10 itself can manage the audio hardware with no problems. I did have to unplug and re-plug the devices for Windows to detect them, but now my speakers and headphones show up as separate sound devices.
How Can I Separate My Speaker And Headphones Soundsport
While I'm here, a little theory on how this all works in Windows. Logitech g600 not detected. Each sound device is an independent output channel for apps to play to. Most apps just play to the 'Default App', which you configure in the Sound control panel or with a program like SoundSwitch. But some apps let you choose a specific output device, particularly games, and you can use that to play different sounds simultaneously through different apps. There's also a notion of a 'Communications device' separate from the usual default, I think for VOIP apps like Skype to use a headset always.
I'm still confused about what drivers are involved. Device Manager tells me stuff is being managed by Microsoft's Driver 10.0.14393.0, which I think is just Windows 10. But Sound tells me that there's also a RealTek Controller which a RealTek Driver 6.0.1.7910. I wonder if Microsoft ships that, or if I didn't uninstall that driver when I uninstalled the Realtek Audio Manager?
Update: this stopped working after I rebooted.
How Can I Separate My Speaker And Headphones Sound Windows 7
Update 2: a reader wrote to suggest
How Can I Separate My Speaker And Headphones Soundbar
The problem is that Windows 10 reinstalls the Realtek driver automatically (in the background without asking no less…). Windows 8.1 desktop themes free. To stop that you can open the device manager and open the 'Sound, video and game controllers' list (not 'Audio inputs and outputs', there it doesn't work). There you will see that your audio device is a Realtek device again. Open properties, go to the driver tab and click on 'Roll Back Driver…'. Now you will get the Windows driver and it wont reinstall the Realtek driver.
