Hotkey for changing Sound Output device (solved!)

[MRiOS]

Ok the title pretty much summarizes my question. I frequently have to switch my sound output device from Line Out to Headphones. I know all about the Option-Click of the menubar icon, but what I really want is to assign a hotkey to cycle through them (similar to the alt tab program scroll) when I can't easily get up to cross the room for my mouse.

If it helps I use a Logitech DiNovo Mac edition keyboard. I've looked all through it's prefpane but it doesn't have an option to switch sound outputs. If there was an unknown keyboard shortcut to switch outputs then I could easily just assign it to an Fx key.

 

[MRiOS]

Query Solved!

Just In Case anyone was wondering how to do this I found the answer after extended google searching. I found how to write an AppleScript command to switch Audio outputs. You can read the instructions here http://blog.plasticmind.com/code/audio-output-toggle-applescript/

 

[skylounging]

Thanks!

It totally worked!! Thanks for linking that! By the way I got quicksilver from http://qsapp.com/index.php since I didn't have it before.

 

[K2R]

Was also looking for something with similar functionality. Luckily I can across this program which allows you to simplify the audio switching process in your menu bar and also has customizable shortcut keys to do just this without any scripting:

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/audioswitcher/id561712678?mt=12

I use (control + option + 1) to switch my audio output source to my mac and (control + option + 2) to set it to my headphones. Works like a charm!