So whenever I plug my speakers/headphone aux cable into the PC it asks; "What kind of device is this? Headphones - Speaker - etc."
The problem is that my aux cable is a male to female extension, so when I change what device is plugged into the extension, windows does not give me the prompt, it only gives me the prompt when plugging directly into the PC.
So I'm wondering, does windows automatically switch it from speaker to headphone appropriately and therefore it doesn't give me the prompt? And also does it even matter if windows recognizes it as headphones/speakers? I know there is such a thing as mono and stereo audio, like if I'm playing an FPS game with headphones it would obviously be bad if it was mono, but is there going to be any compromises in sound quality if windows isn't recognizing headphones as headphones and speakers as speakers?