Method 1. Left-click the speaker icon in your taskbar. It's usually on the far right side of the taskbar next to the Wi-Fi icon. Click the arrow next to the current audio output. Clicking this will prompt a menu to appear that lists all your current audio devices.
For Windows 11, you will see the arrow next to the sound slider instead. Click the audio output you want to use. When you do this, the sound will play through the audio output device you selected from the list. You will have to repeat this process every time your computer shuts down or any time you want to change the audio output.
If you don't want to have to do this all the time, go to the Control Panel and change the default audio device. Method 2. Type Control Panel. This displays the Control Panel at the top of the Windows Start menu. Click the Control Panel. The Control Panel is the app that has an icon that resembles a blue screen with graphs. It's the green text next to an image of a printer.
It's next to the icon that resembles a speaker. This displays the Sound options window. Click the Playback tab. The Playback tab is the first tab at the top of the Sound options window. This displays a list of available audio devices. Click Set Default. It's the button below the list of devices in the sound options. It's has a downward-facing arrow next to it. This sets the audio device as the default audio device.
I know for a fact this can be done, since SoundLeech captures audio from individual programs, and theoretically once you have the sound you can do what you want with it including play it to any sound output device. I need some pointers to capturing sound from individual programs. I work with audio recording very frequently and I would be willing to put in a large amount of work to develop a way to better handle sound in Windows given how difficult to use it currently is.
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Subway Surfers. I really hope this is possible soon! I have a very similar scenario. I have powered speakers and a set of headphones with a volume control, so when I need to either change from speakers to headphones because someone else is using the room , or from headphones to speakers because I have the room to myself again , I can just turn off the output I don't want, and turn on the one I do.
Seems ridiculous to have completely lost this functionality which has been around for years. Mess around with streaming audio to certain devices all you want, just give us the option of piping all output to all devices.
I really love the question and would love to see an answer to this, and not some BS oh you can do this but then the option must be changed within the application. I'm seriously considering going back to XP. Sure XP is slower, but at least it allows the user to do what they want with their computer. I have recently encountered exactly the same problem as the TS mentioned. It is not obvious and it's a very bad UX, and it may not work for all cases, but it works for some.
After this the sounds of all applications that do not allow to choose their sound output are rerouted to the device you specify as default. I've been trying to find a solution to this problem for years now, too. My problem is slightly different. I run a recording studio. There are three zones. We'll call them Control, Chamber and Listening. The control zone is where I listen to what's going on.
The chamber zone is where the musician being recorded is, and listening, of course, is where you listen to the final product. I use the internal speaker output for the listening zone, an M-Audio firewire breakout for the control room, and optical out to my studio monitors in the control room. Under XP this worked I have modified the system to where I can use WMP for the listening room which means converting to WMA before replay , which is frustrating if you are trying to get the mix right affect a change, convert to WMA, playback, affect another change I can change the volumes at each zone by tennis shoe run to each room and change the volume at the speaker level , but this also is compromise I guess after 2 years, I should ask them, because MS obviously doesn't care about our needs.
So off to Mac for me. My M-Audio Firewire mixer works with Mac. Sorry, MS! I am trying to do kind of the opposite. I have used my computer for making music for years. Now with Windows 7, I can only use one audio creation software at a time. I cannot record from a midi device while keeping a DAW application open. With XP, I could have a sampler, a drum machine, a DAW and recorder for audio or midi all enabled and active at the same time. Adding specific restrictions to the operating system may have had some great thought behind it when the marketing people came up with the idea, but the real users would tend to disagree.
But this is why there are more and more developers leaving the proprietary world of Microsoft for the freedom to accomplish what was once easy and now has become restricted.
Just like Apple, Microsoft is becoming Big Brother and wants absolute control over the applications, as well as all of the data and personal information, on any machine they can grab control over.
I am now in the market for a USABLE operating system that allows the users to control the computer and not for an operating system that wants control of the user. I think my problem is a similar one.. All of my drivers are up to date and so on and so forth.. Often when I am playing games, my partner wishes to watch movies, which means I have to silence the game..
I wish to plug my headphones into my secondary case output and listen to my game on the cans, whilst my partner listens to her movie on the 5. May I suggest to Microsoft, that the applications are listed one mixer panel, with a drop down box below the title of the application that enables the output device to be selected, with the ability to change the preferred default output device for each program that is being run that is listed in the mixer panel.
Vista and I think XP had something similar and it was farking fantastic Why the hell would Microsoft let go of a good thing? Hope it helps. I still want this fixed. This is not ok. It is absolutely shameful that there has been apparently no effort on Microsoft's part to improve their audio settings to allow for this.
Multiple applications to multiple outputs, all selectable, any number of them to any number of them. Hardware's already more than capable of it, software's already capable of it.
It's just setup in a way that does not allow users to configure it. Not all of your users are dumb - make us have to click a "show me advanced options" button to get to it.
I don't care, but make it doable. Blaming it on software companies itunes, etc. It should be in the windows settings, not up to 3rd party programmers what random features they will and will not include. The ghetto-ass solutions mentioned those involving terrible 3rd party software, headphone splitters, etc are not solutions worth mentioning. Of the hundreds of programmers at microsoft's disposal, please, please, let one of them work on changing this situation to one that works for everyone, not just the lowest common denominator of your customers.
It will probably take no time at all. This is clearly important to a lot of people. The kind of people who spend a lot of money on hardware, software, and entertainment.
Or, please direct me to the proper channel to request this at. And at least, someone from microsoft reply so we know someone's at least hearing that we're not happy with this.
Or how bout - and I know this is going to sound craz y - a powertoy? You know, an awesome little add-on to an OS, that does a whole lot of good, but no one knows about so it doesn't ruffle any feathers either. It would be nice if there was an external application that allowed me to list processes using devices volume control err sndvol32? This fixes the problem for many people. This would take microsoft stepping in and developing a fix which from what I understand is tricky because of different sound cards, drivers etc.
I would like to see an option to port specific software to a specific device with an option to have all software go through a device. This would allow you to immediately set everything to speakers and be on by default. The option would also allow me to run pandora in chrome and IE with two different stations running so I can have internet radio in two locations from 1 computer.
That's all I want I don't see how this can be sooo difficult but then again I'm not a programmer nor do I know where windows analyzes the sound coming in from dif software. If it hasn't been fixed I'm thinking its too difficult for them to do it without a major overhaul of the system for sound coming in from software and being redistributed to a device.
If its an easy fix they're just lazy. Is there anything new happened related to this issue in windows 8? I mean is it possible in Windows 8 to assign the streaming of the sound for each running application to a specific audio device? This assumes you want to route a single application iTunes for example to a separate sound device to all other applications.
It seems a little complex, but it only actually takes 30 seconds every time you boot your pc. Please note carefully where I've stated "left" or "right" click.. Boot your PC 2. Right click on the speaker icon in the system tray and left click "Playback Devices" 3.
In the "Sound" window that opens, ensure that the sound device that you want to route all other applications to has the only green "tick" against it. If if doesn't, left click on it, then click the "Set Default" button. Now start all of the apps whose sound you want to route to that device I Explorer, Firefox etc. If you're going to play videos which use Adobe Flashplayer from within those apps then make sure to open one now.
This ensure that Flashplayer gets associated with this sound device. Now left click on the speaker icon in the system tray to bring up the volume mixer. If at this point you see multiple devices, click on the "Mixer" for the above, current default device.
You should now see the mixer for the default device showing controls for the applications you've started. Left click on the "System Sounds" icon. In the "Sound" window that opens, select the "Playback" tab 9. In the resulting pop-up window, left click "Set as Default Device". You'll notice that there are now green ticks against 2 devices, the original one we set and now the new one. Now start iTunes and play a file.
It should be routed to the new device. All other sound should still be routed to the original device. I'm not sure if the below final step is necessary but I think it prevents any further newly opened apps from routing to the separate device..
There will now only be one device which has a green tick, but iTunes will continue to route to the separate device. Another little tip.. You can now select which sound devices will show their own volume controls every time you left click the volume icon in the system tray. Because like a lot of you, I have searched for a solution to this problem for a long time, and fortunately I have found a convenient solution for me, I decided to share it with you.
As stated by others IndieVolume works right but for win7 64bit it didn't work as expected. I wanted to stream grooveshark music through an spdif output of my mother board and be able to continue play my games and hear their sounds through my headphones. IndieVolume in this situation couldn't redirect the sound of any of the processes it detected which were :. Anyway redirecting the sound of the above didn't do the job.
Using a virtual machine, I installed ubuntu, and launched firefox and grooveshark. I used VMware but i think its possible to do the same with VirtualBox. In the options you can specify which output it will use in the host PC. A little heavy but it does the job. Another Solution I found is a not yet released xpi. I decided the test it anyway and it did the job quite well. It adds the capability to choose the output device for firefox itself, quite convenient.
But this doesn't work for flash based sites I still don't understand why we should go through all this searching and tweaking for such a simple feature Microsoft should give it a special look because that why a lot of artists and pros choose the apple brand for audio and video tasks The addon didn't make it through the mozilla approval board I am forever thankful to him, nice job man and make the website ready for it asap.
Microsoft, why do you constantly give me reasons to hate Windows and love Linux? In Linux, I can change any application's sound output device while the sound is playing! Application developers are not all cleaver enough to add this kind of support at the application level, nor should they have to The OS should have complete control over this, unless the application overrides.
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