🎧 Audio Switch

Swap your Windows default audio output with one hotkey.

A tiny system-tray app that pops up a clean picker wherever your cursor is — hit a key, click a device, done. No more digging through Windows Sound settings to move audio between headphones, speakers, and monitors.

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⬇️ Download

Download AudioSwitch.exe →

One file, ~1.3 MB. No installer, no admin rights, no AutoHotkey needed — it's fully self-contained.

🚀 Install (10 seconds)

1. Download AudioSwitch.exe and drop it anywhere (Desktop, a tools folder, wherever).
2. Double-click it. A headphone icon appears in your system tray.
3. Press F12 — the picker pops up at your cursor. Click an output device.
4. Right-click the tray icon any time for Settings, About, or Exit.

✨ Features

• One global hotkey — switch outputs without leaving your game, call, or DAW. The picker comes to your cursor, on top of everything.
• Tells your devices apart — every output shows its adapter underneath (Bluetooth, Realtek, NVIDIA…), so identical names like two “Headphones” are easy to distinguish — and Bluetooth devices always show up, tagged as such.
• Your shortcut, your call — rebind it to any combo (Ctrl+Alt+S, a spare function key, whatever) in Settings.
• Lives in the tray — clean headphone icon; right-click for Settings / About / one-click Exit.
• Draggable & glowing — move the window by its header, cards glow on hover, and pulse when clicked.
• Starts with Windows — flip one switch in Settings and it's armed every time you log in.
• Truly standalone — a single .exe. No install, no AutoHotkey, no admin. Copy it to any Windows 10/11 PC and run.

⚙️ Settings

Open from the tray icon → Settings…

• Shortcut — tick modifiers (Ctrl / Alt / Shift / Win) + pick a key. Default is F12.
• Start automatically with Windows — adds/removes a Startup shortcut.

Config is stored at %AppData%\AudioSwitch\settings.ini.

🛠️ How it works

Audio Switch reads your active render (output) devices from the registry and switches the default endpoint using the same Windows IPolicyConfig COM interface the system sound flyout uses — so it's instant and needs no elevation.

🧰 Build from source

The app is a single AutoHotkey v1.1 (Unicode) script, AudioSwitch.ahk.

• Run directly: install AutoHotkey v1.1 and double-click the .ahk (keep AudioSwitch.ico next to it).
• Compile to a standalone .exe: with Ahk2Exe:

  Ahk2Exe.exe /in AudioSwitch.ahk /out AudioSwitch.exe /icon AudioSwitch.ico /base AutoHotkeyU64.exe
  

  (Keep the .ahk saved as UTF-8 with BOM so the glyphs render correctly.)

📋 Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11
• At least one audio output device

📄 License

MIT — free, forever. Made by Mickey Perry.