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!
You need .NET 4.5.2 installed to work: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 (Offline Installer)
You also need Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015
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".
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
SoundSwitch can also switch your recording devices. You can set HotKeys as for the Playback devices.
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 click on it, a new Window opens with a progress bar (see screenshots). The new version get 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.
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 ask to have access to Communications Audio Device (like Skype), 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.
SoundSwitch provides 3 types of notification.
This is the default notification, it use the ballontip of Windows. In the case of Windows 7, it's the little ballon that open next to the systray icon. For Windows 10, it's the notification system that slide from the right corner of the screen.
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.
In case you're not interested of getting any sort of notification.
Copyright (C) 2015 Jeroen Pelgrims
Copyright (C) 2015 Antoine Aflalo
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