It's an audio emergency

[Baron623]

Hello, I am currently in school and living in dorms with very limited space.  I have a Macbook pro, and xbox one s, and my gaming pc.  I have one monitor and do not use more than one of these devices at a time.  My monitor is connected to an hdmi switch for my xbox and gaming pc, and my MacBook is connected to my monitor through display port, connected to a thunderbolt dock.  My problem is that my monitor has no audio in or out, and my Logitech speakers can only output audio from my Mac.  If I want to have audio from my pc, I have to unplug the auxiliary cable and plug it into my pc, which is a pain due to cable management.  Is there an hdmi switch that has an audio out, or something of that nature that would allow me to use the speakers for my xbox, pc, and Mac without having to unplug? Thanks! 

[loculus]

Plug the HDMI switch into an HDMI -> HDMI + audio extractor. I'm not 100% sure this works with the switch there and am unsure about latency, but that should do the trick. I think.

 

Looks something like this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HDMI-to-HDMI-Audio-Extractor-Adapter-Converter-SPDIF-Toslink-L-R-RCA-Output/302087144409?hash=item4655cc03d9:g:aBsAAOSw7NpZ1fFi

 

Actually, would you still have to unplug something, to connect to the speakers? You could get another switch or splitter into that, if the speakers only have one input.

[Baron623]

The speakers only have one input.  So for each input I would need to get some sort of hdmi audio extractor and an aux switch

[Baron623]

There must be a better way, my hdmi switch outputs at 4k, and all of the audio extractors output video at 1080, and most do not have auxiliary outputs.