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Windows lets you assign individual apps to different playback devices, but all your Chrome tabs are treated as a single application. Here's how to separate upward your Chrome tabs and play sound from dissimilar tabs through different audio devices.

A word of caution: installing Chrome extensions is more than dangerous than y'all'd call up, so we generally propose against adding too many of them. However, this one seems okay and is open source to boot. If you're however cautious, yous can manually set up it to merely piece of work on certain sites, like YouTube, in Chrome's extension settings.

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Installing AudioPick

Click "Add together to Chrome" on AudioPick's download page, and accept the permissions. Yous'll take a new icon in the menubar, which brings up the interface:

picking an output device for the current tab

By default, it's set to use your system's master audio output, or more specifically whatever you've set up Chrome to use in Windows' per-app sound settings. You lot tin change the current tab to use whatever other output yous have ready upward in Windows.

AudioPick remembers your selection for each tab. Your selection also won't impact other tabs. Current tabs keep using whatever you lot prepare them to, and new tabs will use the System Default Device.

This works with whatsoever device, even virtual ones, which makes this extension useful if y'all'd like to play music through your speakers while listening to something on your headphones, like game audio.

Ane bug we've institute: occasionally, when hotplugging audio devices, the extension can get stuck and mute output. If this happens, just set it back to the Organisation Default Device, and and so re-enable your preferred device.

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Limit the Extension's Permissions

Every bit a general rule for all Chrome extensions, you lot should whitelist specific sites on which this extension can work. That ensures the extension is only running where you need information technology and provides some protection in case the extension goes bad and starts tracking y'all.

You tin can do this in Chrome's extension settings. Click the menu icon in the tiptop right corner, and select More Tools > Extensions. Ringlet down to AudioPick and select "Details."

You tin can change the site access permission, and add equally many sites every bit y'all'd similar:

whitelisting allowed sites

Alternatively, yous can set it to "On Click," which will disable permissions until you click the icon in the menubar.

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