Dave Rowe's Blog » Hardware http://blog.roweware.com Ramblings about things I think I know... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:45:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Soundcard Wish http://blog.roweware.com/2008/07/16/soundcard-wish/ http://blog.roweware.com/2008/07/16/soundcard-wish/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:20:41 +0000 Dave Rowe http://blog.roweware.com/2008/07/16/soundcard-wish/ I use Skype periodically for phone calls from my PC.  I also enjoy listening to music while I work.  My main workstation is a Dell Dimension E520 – Running Kubuntu 8.04.  So, on the box, I have 2 front connections to the sound card, a headphone jack and a microphone jack.  Using my headset which splits the 2 out, it’s very handy for connecting.  Trouble is I’m constantly unplugging the headphone jack to utilize the normal speaker set I have on my desk.  What I’d love to do is direct regular audio output (ie, Music, System notifications, etc) through the rear connection, and have the Skype audio directed through the front headphone connection.  This would allow me to listen to music, and when I saw a Skype notification arise, I could just pick up the headset and go, rather than fumble with the headphone connection.

Putting this post up on the ‘tubes to see if anyone has found a solution for this sort of setup.

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