SoundSwitch makes it easier to switch playback devices (sound cards).
Normally, to switch a Playback device you need to right click the sound icon in the bottom right corner of your screen (system tray), choose “Playback devices” and then change the default playback device. Every time you want to switch.
With SoundSwitch you just configure once between which Playback devices you want to toggle and then you can press Ctrl+Alt+F11 to toggle automatically!
Dependencies
You need .NET 4.6.2 installed to work: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2 (Web Installer)
You also need Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015
Donations
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Configuration
Right click the SoundSwitch icon in your system tray and choose Settings. Now select the devices between which you want to toggle. Optionally you can also change the keyboard combination, by default this is {Ctrl + Alt + F11} If you want the application to start automatically when your PC boots up, check the box “Run at startup”.
Usage
Press Ctrl + Alt + F11 to cycle through the playback devices. (Or a different key combination if you changed it)
For Recording devices the default is: Ctrl + Alt + F7
Double clicks
You can also double click on the systray icon to switch audio devices.
Left Click
If you use the left click on the systray icon, you'll see a menu appear where you can select the wanted device.
Features
Recording Devices
SoundSwitch can also take care of your recording devices. You can set specifics HotKeys as for the Playback devices.
Auto-Updater
This is one of the interesting feature added in Isabelline Gold, the auto-updater. Every 12h SoundSwitch will check the GitHub repository (thanks to the GitHub API) for a new release, if a new one is available, the user will get a notification and the “No Update” in the context menu will change to “Update Available (X.X.X)” where X.X.X represent the new version number. When the user clicks on it, a new Window opens with a progress bar (see screenshots). The new version gets automatically downloaded in the temp folder of the user. When the download is finished, the user can install the Update by just clicking the install button. A changelog is also provided by getting the information set in the release on GitHub.
Stealth Update
If you don't want to install manually the update, you can activate this feature to let SoundSwitch update itself when the AutoUpdater find a new suitable version (Enabled by default).
Communications
SoundSwitch can also change the communications devices when asked in the Settings. Windows make a differentiation between Multimedia and Communication; it means if an application asks to have access to Communications Audio Device, it will receive the default Communications device. By default SoundSwitch only change the Multimedia device and not the communications. Now if the checkbox is checked in the settings, it will also change the Communications device.
Notifications
SoundSwitch provides three types of notification.
Windows Notification
This is the default notification; it uses the balloon tip of Windows. In the case of Windows 7, it's the little balloon that opens next to the systray icon. For Windows 10, it's the notification system that slides from the right corner of the screen.
Sound Notification
This notification is a sound played on the switched device. This way when you are switching device, the new device will "chime" to tell you it's selected.
Toast Notification (>=Win 8)
If you are on Windows 8 or more, you can use this type of Toast notification. More personalization is possible, by default the notification is silent, but you can set a custom sound for it (mp3 or wav for now).
If you want to return to a silent Toast notification, open the file selector, and just do Cancel. Doing that will remove the set sound.
No Notification
In case you're not interested in getting any notification.
Awards
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License: GPLv2
Copyright (C) 2015 Jeroen Pelgrims
Copyright (C) 2015-2017 Antoine Aflalo
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Credits
Original Developer
Icons
The Pastel SVG icon set Created by Michael Buckley is licensed under the:
Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share Alike 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Keyboard hook
Changing default sound device
Disabling notification
@adamblackburn with merge request #33