Cycling through audio devices - notification delay

[jhakonen]

I have three playback devices which I'm switching through using SoundSwitch in Windows 10:

• Kaiuttimet (Realtek High Definition Audio)
• Kaiuttimet (Sound Blaster Z)
• ROG PG348Q-8 (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)

When I want to listen audio e.g. from Spotify, I start the application and start playing some track. Then I press SoundSwitch's playback hotkey rapidly several times until audio comes out from correct audio device.

However it would be nice if I could select the device before starting audio playback.

SoundSwitch shows notifications when I cycle through the devices, but they pop up with ~10 second intervals, which is way too long time to wait between hotkey presses to see which device is currently selected.

How do I get rid of that 10 second interval? I would like to rapidly change the audio devices and still be able to see from the notification which device is currently selected.

[FireEmerald]

I would say the easiest way would be to use another Notification type. In your case a Sound Notification which will play a sound on the selected device. Specify a custom short sound.

It is not possible to set a delay below 5sec for the windows notifications. Options can be found here:

NOTE: The default time is 5 seconds. Entering anything lower then 5 seconds will still have a 5 second wait.
Source: 6175-notifications-display-time-change-window-10

[jhakonen]

Looks like I had the timeout value set to the default 5 secs, so no help from there.

However, that sound notification works a lot better. It still would be nicer to have visual confirmation in form of somekind of textual notification, but this will do.

Thank you!

[Belphemur]

As @FireEmerald said this is an annoying restriction of windows 8/10. In the code of SoundSwitch I put a 2 second delay but as you can see it's not taken into account. To improve this, we'd have to create our own type of notification pop-up instead of relying on windows to do it. ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​

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