choosing playback mode

[Guest]

I just started using Vista Ultimate on a multimedia system. It seems that I
cannot have sound coming out of both speakers and SPDIF at the same time.
The sound configuration software forces me to choose a "default". This is a
real problem for those who want a different sound setup for playing movies
than they use for playing music. It means you have to keep going into the
sound setup program to change the default. I did not have this problem with
XP. It played out of multiple outputs simultaneously. Is there a way to
force the computer to play out of both "speakers" and "SPDIF" at the same
time or at least choose which programs play through which outputs? (e.g.
Multimedia center Music plays through "speakers" and "Play DVD" plays through
"SPDIF")

 

[Juarez]

I just started using Vista Ultimate on a multimedia system. It seems that I
cannot have sound coming out of both speakers and SPDIF at the same time.
The sound configuration software forces me to choose a "default". This is a
real problem for those who want a different sound setup for playing movies
than they use for playing music. It means you have to keep going into the
sound setup program to change the default. I did not have this problem with
XP. It played out of multiple outputs simultaneously. Is there a way to
force the computer to play out of both "speakers" and "SPDIF" at the same
time or at least choose which programs play through which outputs? (e.g.
Multimedia center Music plays through "speakers" and "Play DVD" plays through
"SPDIF")

Not that I know of, and that's because Vista does it right and XP
doesn't. On Vista my spdif to my DAC works fine everytime on boot up but
on XP I have to turn off spdif and turn it back on before my DAC syncs.
Vista is doing it right and XP isn't. Just rebooting the PC on XP causes
loss of sync so I have to go turn/off/on again the spdif option, neither
my Vista or Xbox 360 causes that issue. I don't want sound playing out of
spdif and analog port at the same time anyway. It should be one or the
other so you are stuck with having to change sources each time.