Best Headphone/Speaker Toggle for SBZ: Use AHK and sbz-switch (found on Github)

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  • sbz-switch

    Utility for switching Sound Blaster outputs on Windows

  • After doing some Googling, I came upon sbz-switch on Github. Looking at it, I realized this is what I was looking for. This does SBZ settings manipulation at the command line; no window or mouse manipulation required. With sbz-switch in hand, I quickly wrote an AHK (AutoHotKey) script to toggle my headphones and speakers. To properly do the toggle, I do a Registry read (the same way SBZ Switcher did it) on the SBZ card settings. To figure out what Registry Key to read from, I decompiled SBZ Switcher to see how it does it (will be a device under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\MMDevices\Audio\Render) and quickly found the right DWORD that toggles (for me this was {77f01702-a9d1-11df-a289-000bdb7312a5},15). Knowing that, I can quickly read the current state (headphones or speakers) and then toggle appropriately. All with one hotkey with no window or mouse manipulation!

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