How to Play Different Audio Sources Between Your Speakers and Headphones in Windows 11
Do you want to know how to play different apps' audio through your speakers and headphones? Well, with Windows 11, you don’t need to install a third-party app as you can use its built-in tools to customize your system’s sound settings.
How to Change Output Devices for Different Apps in Windows 11
As we’ve mentioned, you don’t need to install any software to have your Windows 11 computer play different audio through different devices. To change the output device for each app, we’ll use the volume mixer.
Here’s how to set it up:
Before closing Volume Mixer, you should adjust the volume for each app to ensure you haven’tset the audio volume too lowand thus won’t hear anything.
How to Reset the Volume Mixer
Windows 11 will remember your sound settings and keep playing the audio through the app’s selected output device as long as the device is connected to your computer. If you want to go back to the default settings, open Volume Mixer, as shown above, scroll down, and clickReset.
Different Devices, Different Sound
Hopefully, you’re now hearing the video game’s audio through your headphones while someone in the room listens to a podcast at the same time.
Now that you’ve got this set up, why not explore other ways you’re able to customize your Windows audio? For instance, you can have two different devices play the same audio content.
Want to play audio on both your Bluetooth speakers and your PC at the same time? Here’s how to do that on Windows 10.
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