Now right click on the primary audio device or pc which is (Speaker/Headphone) in Windows 10. And click on set as default device. Now click on Recording tab at the side of Playback and right click in the empty space and click on show disabled devices. A new blurred device named stereo device or mono device will appear. Answered March 25, 2018 Author has 3.4K answers and 1.7M answer views If you right-click on the ‘speaker’ icon in the taskbar, choose ‘playback devices’ you should see separate ‘devices’ for speakers and headphones, if headphones are plugged in. (Windows 10 here, but IIRC Win7 is similar.). Audio not coming from main speakers at all but from headphones. I tried many solutions from the internet but what worked for me: Open Device Manager; Right-Click on IDT High Definition Audio CODEC or whatever your Sound-Card Driver is. Scan for hardware changes. Let the system install the sound card and there you have it, sound! Add monitor speakers instead (speakers aimed at the musicians, with a mix helping with the performance). It is not unusual to want to monitor as example the singer as well, same monitor speakers can be used. 2) get a knowledgeable person to resolder one of the headphone outputs so that it does not break the connection to the internal speakers.

How Can I Separate My Speaker And Headphones Sound Windows 7
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“You can’t listen to music through two separate destinations.”

“It doesn’t work with Windows.”

These are the replies I have been receiving for the past five to six years. I’m sure I have searched for this topic around a dozen times, but each time it’s the same response. Consider that you are listening to a song using headphones on your laptop. Your sibling wants to listen in as well, but prefers to use the speaker. Can a clash be avoided? How is it possible to listen to music through more than one option at the same time? Why hasn’t Microsoft thought about this aspect?

Guess what! This has been made possible now. Windows can output sound to two sources at the same time, in most of the cases. What’s best is, the installation of additional programs is not necessary for this to work.

How Can I Separate My Speaker And Headphones Sound

Here’s a step by step instruction on how to use both headphones and speakers at the same time.

Method 1:

Connect the headphones to the computer. Make sure the speakers are connected as well.
From the taskbar, right-click the volume icon. Then select Sound from the options, the sound dialog box opens. If you are not able to find the voice icon, use the Windows search box at the bottom left. Type sound and select Sound from the fly-up menu.
In the Playback tab, right-click the speaker and ‘Set as default device’. Do you find the default device as greyed out or missing? If so, then the speaker might be the default device in your system. You can skip this step if it’s down earlier.
Click on the Recording tab and right click the empty space and select ‘Show disabled devices’.
Right click on the option ‘Stereo Mix’ and enable this device. Click again and select Properties.
Select the Listen tab. Place a check mark in the box ‘Listen to this device’. Choose the headphone you want to playback through from the drop-down menu.
Click on the Apply option. That’s all!

To verify, play the music. The sound should come from both the speakers and headphones. Also, the green bars by both devices should be visible. If the sound is not coming from both, check if the speaker is set as a default device and not a communication device.

Method 2:

Do a quick re-installation of the IDT audio driver. If there is a misconfiguration of the settings in the driver, this can rectify it.

Select the Device Manager. For this, choose the Windows + R key. Type devmgmt.msc in the Run box, click Ok. Or type devmgmt.msc in the Windows search box.
Open the ‘Sound, video & game controllers’ option.
Right click on Realtek IDT High Definition Audio and choose the context menu.
Click install.
Select OK.

Once you restart your PC, Windows will re-assemble the driver from the files. The driver’s configuration will also be back to the default options.

Method 3:

How Can I Separate My Speaker And Headphones Sound Windows 7

Download and install a fresh copy of the IDT audio driver. This can be obtained from the support page of the device. Have the files in the audio driver gone corrupt? Then, doing this will fix it. Plus, it will rectify any misconfiguration same as the above step. Make sure to choose the operating system in the menu before downloading the audio driver.

Method 4:

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Does the problem still persist even after doing the above steps?

Then shift from IDT audio driver to Windows native audio driver option.

Select the Device Manager.
Open ‘Sound, video & game controllers’.
Right-click and select the option ‘IDT High Definition – Audio Codec’.
Choose ‘Update Driver Software’ from the list. Select ‘Browse my computer for driver software’ option.
Select the option ‘Pick from a list of drivers on my computer’.
Place a check on the box ‘Show compatible hardware’ if not checked.
After this, choose ‘High Definition Audio’ and click ‘Next’.
In the Update Driver Warning box, select ‘Yes’ and install the driver.
Restart the laptop if prompted.

If not prompted, there is no need to restart the PC.

Method 5:

Check if you have muted the ‘line-in mic’, then the headphones also will be muted. Fix it by removing the mute from the line-in mic.

Right click on the icon ‘speakers’.
Choose the ‘Recording Devices’ option.
Right, click on the ‘Microphone or Line In’ and click ‘enable’.

Wasn’t these steps simple! Go ahead and enjoy listening to music through speakers and headphones.

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Headphones Coming Up As Speakers

Okay I may be posting in the wrong subject but this is sort of a split issue. I'm currently running dual monitors using my monitor and also running my TV via an HDMI. The problem I'm having isn't with dual monitors but with the sound between them.
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?