Windows Audio
OK, so this is a major piss-off since Vista, as XP handled this perfectly, then MS went and screwed it all up.
I have 2 output devices I'd like to use. One is my desktop speakers, the other a SPDIF out to my stereo. In XP you could just play back on everything, and it was all in sync. Perfect. In Win 7 this changed, you could only pick one output device. I got around this by enabling stereo mix, then selecting SPDIF as the output, and having the stereo mix play back on that on the speakers. Manky, and came with about 0.5 second audio delay. Kind of annoying, but I'd turn my computer speakers down if I was using my stereo anyway.
So with Windows 10 I can do exactly the same, but if I select SPDIF as the main out, it won't play back on the speakers through stereo mix. If i set the speakers as the main, it does play audio on the SPDIF out, BUT only 2 channels, so I don't get 5.1 out if I do it that way, which is obviously wrong. So currently I have to change output devices every time I want to switch.
Does anyone know how to make this work? Stupid MS, always breaking stuff that used to work.
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