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I would find it really useful if I could make it so that music I am playing on YouTube in Chrome comes out of speakers, and the sound from other applications comes out of my earphones, so I am wondering if there is a way to get it so that different applications use different sound devices to output? And an easy way of quickly changing which application has which output device assigned to it.

I found another question about this here: Play sound from different applications on different output devices (speakers, headphones) But that question is 2 years old and had no answers, so I decided that I should ask a new question about this.

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Description:    Ubuntu 14.10
Release:    14.10
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It is going to vary with hardware and my guess is that you need 2 separate sound cards or a sound card / mixer capable of such separation.

You can then configure pulseausio to send output to specific locations / cards with pavucontrol , in the playback tab

pavucontrol

One may need to install pavucontrol , either with apt-get or from the software center.

sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

If for some reason, pulseaudio will not do this, jack will, but configuring jack can be overwhelming. If you are new to jack, I suggest Cadence, with is a graphical tool provided as a binary

http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/Downloads

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