Windows 10: Application dominating sound output - will not allow other applications to play sound

I've tried this on the Blizzard forums but my question was deleted so I'm going to try hereWhen I open a game such as World of Warcraft it seems to 'dominate' the sound, as in it takes control of sound for the entire computer and I am unable to hear sound from background applications such as Spotify and Youtube in the Chrome browser. When I close the game, the applications are then able to play the sound and Spotify and Youtube are able to play sound at the same time. The games when I load them don't allow any other sounds to be played other than their own. This didn't used to happen and I wa

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how to play application sounds on all output device.


without using the stereo mix method, how could i make all applications play sounds on all my output devices. I want to do it this way, so if i want an application to play on just a single output(ex. headphones) i could just mute that application on all other output(ex. speaker, stereo, HDMI) on windows' volume mixer.
or if there is a software for this, i looking for designs as plain and simple as the default mixer and easily accessible. i don't want it too complicated.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...=1447258626167
(I'm desperate, i don't know if this is spamming, sorry.)

 

how to play application sounds on all output device.


As you said, you can change the output device in supported programs. This is almost every media player application, such as Windows Media Player, VLC, WinAmp, Classic Media Player etc. You cannot change the output at other applications (Internet Explorer, System sounds etc). So you can select the output device, if you want to play music or video, but not anywhere else. I don't know if there is an application to do it.

 

how to play application sounds on all output device.


Thank you for replying!

I don't have audio cards, i only have the onboard.
I understand what you're saying, but i don't have problems with the inputs and i know how to operate them. I'm talking about the sounds my computer make.

I want a way or software that can allow me to assign each of my applications to play their sounds to a specific output, or 2 or more outputs simultaneously.

So, this are my output devices. the front one is my speakers.
(I uninstalled the realtek drivers cause they just make my pc a huge splitter. doing that separates the front and back panel independently)



And right now, i can only play sounds on 1 device at a time, the one selected as default. some apps would allow me to select a device, some, like wmp.

And this is the default volume mixer.






as you can see on the top picture, (back)headphones, the default device, can control all open applications independently. and the speakers(bottom picture) are just useless.

Now an idea of what i want is to maybe make both of the device act as the default device, that way i can have the volume controls of all applications on the headphone mixer(top picture) and the speaker mixer(bottom picture) at the same time. So if i want a specific app to play just on my headphones, i could just simply mute it on my speakers on the mixer, or control the volume in each device and so on. instead of changing the default device every time.

The Y splitter would just bind the device together. another problem with this is the speaker is too loud for the headphones, so adjusting its volume down would just make the headphones useless because you cant hear anything from it anymore.

tl;dr = I want complete full control over my apps and device volume in my computer.

(PS. I'm not a native english speaker, sorry if you might not understand)