Assign audio output per application?

[cbrunny]

Hi all. I'm looking for a piece of software or a feature within Windows 8 that can help me here. In brief:

- I have a headset and a speaker set up
- Two monitors (One monitor, one projector)
- Audio works to all devices
- I want to output different things to each audio output. E.G. Game audio to headset, movie audio to speakers, simultaneously.

Is this possible? Any software that you've seen that can help this? I see that WMP has a feature for it but whenever I use it, it crashes WMP. Also it's WMP so I'd prefer not to use it.

Thanks!

 

[Ketchup]

I wonder if you audio chip has application-specific options for this. What audio chip do you have/are you using?

 

[Chapbass]

Some programs can do this natively...one such example is Skype. you can choose your output in the app. I'm not sure of how to do this if the app doesn't hav ean option inside.

 

[boochi]

Winamp will do what you wish as will MPC-HC.

 

[cbrunny]

I wonder if you audio chip has application-specific options for this. What audio chip do you have/are you using?

Using onboard audio only, though the headset is wireless via usb - not sure if the sound is rendered in the usb or on the mb, but I'm assuming the mb. The MB is a Asus Sabertooth 990FX.

 

[cbrunny]

Winamp will do what you wish as will MPC-HC.

Found the option in MPC - works perfectly. A bit clunkier than I'd prefer in a solution, being buried in menus as opposed to pre-configurable or by shortcut keys, but clearly still works. Thanks for the tip.

 

[boochi]

Found the option in MPC - works perfectly. A bit clunkier than I'd prefer in a solution, being buried in menus as opposed to pre-configurable or by shortcut keys, but clearly still works. Thanks for the tip.

You can also install both the 32 and 64 bit versions and have settings be independent of one another for playing to different outputs. Be sure to have settings saved in a .ini file and not in the registry. With a minor registry change you can have both show up in the right click context menu to launch in either 32 or 64 bit.

 

[Palbosa]

Hello, i've got a solution for you.

Check www.chevolume.com

Here is a screenshot from the website :

 

[John Connor]

Old thread, but I wonder if VAC could help in this? http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm

There is a free program like VAC on Source forge, but I can't remember the name of it off hand.