Quicker way to change sound output source

[apfhex]

I recently purchased a USB headset, and would like to sometimes have audio put through it instead of Line Out, but I have to go into the System Preferences every time I want to change it... has anyone found a quicker method of doing this? A Menuextra would be good (though I dislike using 3rd party ones due to them using hacks to work), a Dashboard widget would also be nice.

 

[roger6106]

Here's 2 potential solutions:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050614171126634 - an applescript

http://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/ - soundsource

I have not tried these.

 

[deweller]

Command line utility

Here is a command-line utility that I wrote to do this:

http://code.google.com/p/switchaudio-osx/downloads/list

 

[apfhex]

Hmm.... old thread is old.

I believe SoundSource worked quite nicely as a solution, though I no longer care (but perhaps someone else will ).

 

[sOwL]

wow thnx for that

 

[deweller]

I believe SoundSource worked quite nicely as a solution, though I no longer care (but perhaps someone else will ).

SoundSource works great. But I change outputs a lot and I wanted a way to do it with one keyboard stroke. So, I used a Quicksilver trigger to launch this command-line utility.

Most people will be happy with SoundSource, but I expect there are a few people like me that to be able want to change sound outputs from the command-line.