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Two Sound Cards .. So Two Audio Streams?
My default audio device is a Creative X-Fi Titanium card... but this desktop PC came with a built-in Realtek HD audio device too.
Normally all of my sound comes from speakers plugged into the x-fi card and I never use the Realtek device - which I presume is connected to the other (unused) headphone jack on my PC.
But now I'm wondering whether I can plug in headphones/speakers into that unused jack and set e.g. a media player program to instead output to Realtek HD audio device instead of the X-Fi. Couldn't I get two separate audio streams that way?
How would I do that? I can't see options to choose an audio device on many programs, is there another way?
edit: So basically, what I want is to be able to have earphones listening to one program's audio, while my speakers (or another pair of earphones) play audio from a different program.
Last edited by taglock; 17 Sep 2014 at 17:49. Reason: To clarify what I am going for