If you can normalize to 3.5mm jacks (like if you have speakers not on your TV) you could use something like this
That's how I ran my college rig which pulled double duty as gaming box and HTPC
Yes, it is possible. You have to set your Default Devices in Windows to your TV Audio. Then in the games you havge to manually set your Output to your Headset.
Your party might hear your Music playing and some games might not support setting a different audio output, but in theory it is as simple as that.
A while ago Win 10 got a feature that allows you to set different output/input devices for different applications in the Win 10 settings.
Go Settings>System>Sound, scroll down, there should be 'App volume and device prefrences'. In there you can assign a different output device to each program and adjust the volume. Just assign 'your game' and your discord (I guess) to your headphones and your source of music to your Hdmi output.
Important note: Since Win 10 can be a bit reluctant at recognizing apps, I recommend to have the app launched before you go to the settings. And if you want to assign your browser, you may want to have it playing a video/audio and the window shouldnt be minimized.
Just give it a try as its already build into Win 10, should be fine unless you want to switch on the fly than a different hardware/software solution might be needed.
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