Can you play one thing in your speakers and another in headphones?

[FlamesAddiction]

To elaborate, my wife wants me to play music on the speakers for her, but I am playing a game that requires audio. Is there some way to direct the audio from the Windows Media Player to the speakers while keeping my game on the headphones?

I have Windows 7.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Tysonh]

I don't think there is. As far as I know, only one audio source can be used at a time.

[sclitheroe]

The machine needs to have two audio outputs (not one + a slaved headphone jack, two distinct output devices), plus the applications you want to use for audio output need to support the Stream Routing API (Windows Media player does, I assume some others would too)

See here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...-98964d67c2c7/