System tray audio device switcher (STADS)

If you have an audio card (or some people call it sound card) that supports multiple outputs and actually using it for different purposes such as playing games, watching movies & listening to music, you’ll have to go through the hassle of changing the audio output in Windows Vista Control Panel.

Here’s an example. Let’s say you have a headphone and speakers. In order to change the audio output, you’ll have to close the program that is currently outputing the audio and right click on the speaker icon, choose Playback Devices, right-click on the playback device that you want and select Set as Default. Then click OK to close the sound configuration window and relaunch the program and play the audio. That will make it change from one output to the other, but it is troublesome and involves many steps.

STADS is a program compiled on 07/12/06 that allows you to easily switch between audio devices without going into the control panel. This program was created because the author have an audio card that supports multiple outputs and he got tired of going into the Control Panel every time he wanted to simply switch Winamp to use different speakers.

Attachments

SystemTrayAudioSwitcher_XPsetup.exe

SystemTrayAudioSwitcher_XPsetup.exe 2.03 MB