[TyrannusMaximus]

I've given up... Right now, I'm routing sound in through my line in on my motherboard and playing it on my speakers and it sounds great. My next plan was to then plug in my USB headphones and listen to the music. I've selected my headset to be the default device for windows but the sound keeps coming out of the speakers. Has anyone tried this and is there a way to force the sound to go to the USB headphones?

This post has been edited by TyrannusMaximus: 25 January 2008 - 11:14 PM

[dannytheone]

TyrannusMaximus, on Jan 25 2008, 11:13 PM, said:

I've given up... Right now, I'm routing sound in through my line in on my motherboard and playing it on my speakers and it sounds great. My next plan was to then plug in my USB headphones and listen to the music. I've selected my headset to be the default device for windows but the sound keeps coming out of the speakers. Has anyone tried this and is there a way to force the sound to go to the USB headphones?

have you tried restarting after changing the default device?

[TyrannusMaximus]

dannytheone, on Jan 25 2008, 05:15 PM, said:

TyrannusMaximus, on Jan 25 2008, 11:13 PM, said:

I've given up... Right now, I'm routing sound in through my line in on my motherboard and playing it on my speakers and it sounds great. My next plan was to then plug in my USB headphones and listen to the music. I've selected my headset to be the default device for windows but the sound keeps coming out of the speakers. Has anyone tried this and is there a way to force the sound to go to the USB headphones?

have you tried restarting after changing the default device?

Yep, the sound for Windows itself (email notifications, alerts, etc) go through the headphones but the line in goes out to the speakers no matter what I do. Almost as if it's hard coded to go there.... I real suprised there is no way to do this via software... FYI - This is the line in on the sound plugs that are directly on the mother board.

[Circuit]

TyrannusMaximus, on Jan 25 2008, 04:13 PM, said:

I've given up... Right now, I'm routing sound in through my line in on my motherboard and playing it on my speakers and it sounds great. My next plan was to then plug in my USB headphones and listen to the music. I've selected my headset to be the default device for windows but the sound keeps coming out of the speakers. Has anyone tried this and is there a way to force the sound to go to the USB headphones?

Although I am currently still running XP, I have the same problem. I bought the Motorola S9 bluetooth headset. I can listen to itunes just fine and all the computer sounds as well. But I tried to turn on my Hauppauge TV tuner which outputs sound into the line-in input of the sound card and I can not hear anything. I am using a Trendnet bluetooth usb adapter to throw the sound to my headset. Looking in the sound properties of the Bluetooth it does not display Line-in as an option to manipulate or mute. Is there a way to change that and add Line-in to the Bluetooth sound controller?

[drunkard]

Unfortunately, most any PC audio hardware is not capable of routing it's own inputs to another separate audio devices outputs (or vice versa), and Windows offers no immediate routing system to do this on it's own. However, as you suspected, there is software that can do this.

For years, I've used an application called Virtual Audio Cables to give me more flexible audio routing options in XP, and now Vista. VAC effectively allows for limitless (up to 256!!!) virtual audio (devices) inputs and outputs to be created and used by Windows and any applications.

This interface allows for creating and configuring the virtual audio cables:


Included with VAC is a nifty program called Audio Repeater, which can route any input from any sound device to any output on any sound device. It's a bit clumsy, but it actually works quite well.

Here you can see Audio Repeater is routing the mainboard (Realtek AC97) built-in audio "Stereo Mix" directly to a PCI sound cards speaker outputs (Sound Blaster Audigy):


You would have to start and configure Audio Repeater when you wanted to route the line-in audio to the bluetooth headset output, since it's not a "set it and forget it" solution, but it's exactly what you guys are asking for.

Note: VAC4 is not a free program (costs around 30 US dollars) but the fully featured trial version should allow you to test it out and see if it's what your looking for.

[Circuit]

Thanks Drunkard. It works with this VAC. The sound quality isn't great. I had to mess around with the settings to get the sound as close to the picture as possible. But it works getting the line-in on the sound card out to bluetooth.

This post has been edited by Circuit: 19 May 2008 - 01:27 AM