I have external speakers and a USB headphone/mic. I want to listen to music on the external speakers and listen to the game/voicechat I am playing in my headphones.
I assume it has to be possible, how can I do that?
Windows can't do it afaik, so you'll need to change the default to the headphone and find a music player where you can define output. Or the other way around and find a voicechat that can, but then most games will not have that option, so the music player is easier I think. Pretty sure VLC does this, but the music library function in that is non-existant.
Quote from: Liep on April 28, 2014, 03:44:39 AM
Windows can't do it afaik, so you'll need to change the default to the headphone and find a music player where you can define output. Or the other way around and find a voicechat that can, but then most games will not have that option, so the music player is easier I think. Pretty sure VLC does this, but the music library function in that is non-existant.
This. Windows to headset, media player to speakers- sounds backwards, but a lot of games and voice chat programs use low-level drivers that bypass Windows entirely. Easiest to do if you're using a USB headset as long as you're not using an ASIO driver to cut latency.