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Topic: «Switching audio to playing monitor , switching audio » on forum: Technical Support

David Cunningham

Posts: 1
Joined: 01/30/2025

Posted: 01/30/2025 01:19:18

I've seen this topic listed, but couldn't find a resolution.

I've got two Dell S3422DWG monitors (connect via DisplayPort), with separate speakers attached to each monitor via it's audio out. So two monitors and two sets of speakers.

I'd like to set it up so that if I'm playing Youtube in Chrome on one monitor, and switch the window to the other monitor, I'd like the audio to following the window and play on the newly moved to monitor. As well as any other application I open and move.

Is there a way to configure Actual Multiple Monitors (version 8.15.2) to work that way?

Thanks all!

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Bogdan Polishchuk
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Joined: 04/04/2012

Posted: 01/31/2025 10:29:46

Hello, David

Thank you for contacting us.

If the speakers are recognized by the system as separate audio devices then it's possible to accomplish this.

The Audio Switcher feature doesn't work by default in Chrome since the version of Chrome 79 because the Chrome audio service is sandboxed since that version for added security.

You can disable the audio sandbox using the AudioSandboxEnabled policy in the system registry. Download this .zip file, extract the .reg file from it and execute it in order to disable the audio sandbox for Chrome.

But please note that audio service is sandboxed for added security and disabling the sandbox leaves a user open to security risks related to running the audio subsystem unsandboxed. You disable it at your own risk, and you better do it if you're confident in your system's security, for example if you're running good anti-virus software.

Unfortunately, for now we don't see a way to make Audio Switcher work with the sandboxed audio service, and it seems that disabling of the sandbox is the only way to use the Audio Switcher in Chrome for the near future.

Let us know if the workaround works for you.

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