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I have two monitors setup and i am trying to use the new multiple desktops feature in Windows 10 so i have Desktop 1 and Desktop 2. Is there any way to assign Desktop 1 to one monitor and Desktop 2 to the other with separate audio inputs?

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They are already separate desktops. 

 

Not sure what you mean by seperate audio inputs, you can have as many as you want if you have the correct hardware. 

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2 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

They are already separate desktops. 

 

Not sure what you mean by seperate audio inputs, you can have as many as you want if you have the correct hardware. 

I don't think you understand what i'm talking about! Windows 10 has a feature where you can have multiple desktop screens, i'm not talking about multiple PC's. Here this may help you....

 

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9 minutes ago, Cottontails said:

I don't think you understand what i'm talking about! Windows 10 has a feature where you can have multiple desktop screens, i'm not talking about multiple PC's. Here this may help you....

 

When you enable a task bar per screen it will do that. I have 3 desk tops. Haven't looked into it enough to assign them though. 

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It might work if i run a virtual OS on Desktop 2, then i can assign a different audio source to Desktop 2 through the virtual OS.

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1 hour ago, Cottontails said:

I don't think you understand what i'm talking about! Windows 10 has a feature where you can have multiple desktop screens, i'm not talking about multiple PC's. Here this may help you....

This feature is for creating virtual work spaces. It's just to give you more desktop real estate without getting more monitors.

 

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10 minutes ago, Cottontails said:

It might work if i run a virtual OS on Desktop 2, then i can assign a different audio source to Desktop 2 through the virtual OS.

You want audio from certain apps only to play on Desktop 2 when you switch to it. That's not going to happen. If you want that, a hokey way of doing it is just switch to another user account.

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The taskbar is shared across multiple virtual desktop, so no, you cannot have different audio sources.

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You can however run different audio sources when you're physically running on multiple displays and with separated audio devices, such as a dedicated sound card for 1st monitor and the onboard sourdcard for the 2nd monitor.

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AMD had such feature with Eyefinity, I remember playing with it some time ago. You could associate audio devices to display devices in Eyefinity group and sound would follow display. But I cannot find it anymore in their drivers :-(

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8 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

The taskbar is shared across multiple virtual desktop, so no, you cannot have different audio sources.

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You can however run different audio sources when you're physically running on multiple displays and with separated audio devices, such as a dedicated sound card for 1st monitor and the onboard sourdcard for the 2nd monitor.

If he has display connected with HDMI or DP, those are considered as audio devices.

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On 1/20/2017 at 8:58 PM, SanityAgathion said:

If he has display connected with HDMI or DP, those are considered as audio devices.

Both them carries audio from they both do it from the on board sound card, audio codec on the GPU, so you can't have HDMI and DP playing different audio.

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On 1/21/2017 at 3:55 AM, NumLock21 said:

Both them carries audio from they both do it from the on board sound card, so you can't have HDMI and DP playing different audio.

Of course you can. Those are treated as completely independent sound sources, not any kind of "passthroug", at least not on my AMD cards. They have nothing in common with any motherboard sound card - else we may be able to explain computer playing sounds with motherboard sound disabled - by magic? :-)

 

Make a test if you have Windows: Open good ole Windows Media Player, go to Tools -> Options -> Devices tab -> click on Speakers -> Properties -> Select audio device - and pick anything. Then restart WMP and ... voila! it plays sound through different sound device. VLC has it accessible even better, just select Sound -> Device from menu and pick whatever you want. That's what I do if I want to play a movie on TV and sound through receiver instead of PC speakers.

 

Many media players, communication/presentation software suits and even games allow you to change which sound device you want to use. Hell Skype (non-Preview) client handles that independently from your system causing confusion all the time when you cannot hear people and they cannot hear you because it switches to the most bogus sound devices it finds. Also, have you noticed you can set Communication and Output device independently directly in Sound control panel in Windows? Again, two separate sound devices playing different sounds.

 

I just do not know how OP achieves what he or she wants, that each desktop has different sound device associated with it.

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Well that would be outputs if that's what he meant. Also that would mean he would need more then one way to put out audio. So on board and hdmi for the monitors if used. Which would suck because that's what monitor speakers do. So that could work in a sense.

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2 hours ago, SanityAgathion said:

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I did that a while back, so yes I know it works. But you seem to be missing the point. A single audio source cannot play 2 different independent sounds at the same time, cause when you do, all you heard is stuffs from both sides and it's all just garble noise. This is the reason why, you have to select a different audio device, when using WMP, VLC.

OP basically wants to use Win10's virtual desktop on his 2nd monitor along with a different audio device, so when he switches back and forth, he hears different things

e.g. Monitor # 1 is sound from the game he's playing, when he switches to monitor #2, it's the music he's listening. He can probably do it, only if one of his monitors has built in speakers and has a HDMI port, so it uses the gpu's audio codec. Then monitor #2 will run the sound off the motherboard's audio codec. Win10's virtual desktop won't work with this, he'll just have to run standard dual monitor setup.

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The monitor inself can have a different audio source or you can select the audio out put in the app. 

 

Youre not understanding what you're asking. It's not two desktops. 

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On 1/24/2017 at 0:06 PM, Mick Naughty said:

The monitor inself can have a different audio source or you can select the audio out put in the app. 

 

Youre not understanding what you're asking. It's not two desktops. 

I totally understand what i'm asking, but wasn't sure if it was possible to do without having two computers, but i guess not.

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3 minutes ago, Cottontails said:

I totally understand what i'm asking, but wasn't sure if it was possible to do without having two computers, but i guess not.

You can do it. Serval people said what to do. I play movies on my surround speakers on another's on another monitor and play my games on a headset on another 3 monitors. 

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