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Changing Playback Device Shortcut

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Hey there,

 

Short background: I use my Xonar Card to power my Headphones and a Surround Receiver (when using the TV), but also got a small SMSL amp plugged into my Mobo-Soundcard for stereo sound with Speakers at my desk. Now I usually switch between the two playback devices in the Audio Manager. From my school days however, I remember that there were two shortcuts on the desktop to change the screen resoltuion from 800x600 to 1280x1024 - hence change Windows settings via a shortcut / batch file. Anybody knows, if something similar would be possible for playback devices? I'm a programmer, but have never done anything with batch files. Any input if / how that might be possible?

 

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its possible using autohotkey , if you google "autohotkey audio device switch" there are some guides on how to do it

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Nice, thanks! Never heard of it but I'll give it a try :)

"We cannot change the cards we're dealt - just how we play the hand" - R. Pausch

 

CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X , Cooler: BeQuiet Dark Rock 3 Motherboard: MSI B450 Mortar Titanium RAM: 16 GB Corsair LPX 3200 GPU: EVGA RTX2070 XC Storage: Adata 120GB SSD, SanDisk 1TB SDD, 2TB WD GreenHDD Case: Fractal Design Define Mini C PSU: EVGA Supernova 650GS Peripherals: Master Keys Pro S, Logitech G402 Audio: Schiit Fulla 2 + Sennheiser HD 650. Laptop: Asus Zenbook UX 302

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Since this is a forum, might as well post some solutions right here:

 

http://hackerspace.lifehacker.com/switch-between-two-audio-devices-with-autohotkey-1687823820

 

http://lifehacker.com/316589/turn-any-action-into-a-keyboard-shortcut

 

http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/68257-toggle-set-default-audio-device-in-windows-7/

 

 

 

Edit: there even is a standalone tool for this: http://soundswitch.codeplex.com/releases/view/68935 though I personally like the solution of the first link. Quick and easy, took me about five minutes. Definitely have to dig deeper into this, there are quite a few nice things one could automate with this :)

"We cannot change the cards we're dealt - just how we play the hand" - R. Pausch

 

CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X , Cooler: BeQuiet Dark Rock 3 Motherboard: MSI B450 Mortar Titanium RAM: 16 GB Corsair LPX 3200 GPU: EVGA RTX2070 XC Storage: Adata 120GB SSD, SanDisk 1TB SDD, 2TB WD GreenHDD Case: Fractal Design Define Mini C PSU: EVGA Supernova 650GS Peripherals: Master Keys Pro S, Logitech G402 Audio: Schiit Fulla 2 + Sennheiser HD 650. Laptop: Asus Zenbook UX 302

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