There is no need to touch any of the settings at the VAC control panel.Ģ. You can verify this at the Virtual Audio Cable Control Panel. By default Virtual Audio Cable already creates 1 virtual cable.

Download and install Virtual Audio Cable. Scenario 1: Output audio from Windows Media Player to both speakers and earphone.ġ. After spending some time trying out VAC, I personally believe it is best to try to get it working on one or two scenarios to understand how it works, then only configure it to work with your situation. The official website of Virtual Audio Cable contains a lot of text and jargon which makes it difficult for any non-audiophiles to configure and use it. It requires configuration and also must be worked together with audio applications. Before immediately scrolling to the bottom of this article to download and install Virtual Audio Cable, please be noted that this tool does not work alone just under operating system control. Thanks to Virtual Audio Cable, it offers multiple possibilities on how you want to transfer the audio streams between applications and/or devices. For more complicated scenarios such as wanting to output the sound from a computer game to the earphone while the main speakers plays music from a media player, then it would seemed even more impossible.

Once you’ve plugged in the earphone, Windows 7 automatically recognizes it and routes all sound to the earphone. Some people may want to play sound simultaneously to both speaker and earphone but that is not possible. Windows 7 by design does not support multiple audio output and that is the limitation that many Windows 7 users are not happy with.

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