Easy switching of audio devices

[matthewbim11]

So I have a monitor connected to my laptop via HDMI. The connected one is my main monitor, the laptop is stowed away in a corner acting as a tower. I still use the laptop headphone jack for my earbuds, but my monitor also has speakers. When I unplug the headphones, the laptop speakers output sound instead of my monitor.

I know how to switch playback devices, but is there a way to tell my computer to automatically switch to HDMI audio if no jack is in the plug?

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[Outpacte]

dont think HDMI is supported with computers,

[matthewbim11]

oh ok that makes sense

[Tokthree]

HDMI audio drivers come bundled with your graphics drivers in most cases, you should be able to control them in the control panel for your video card (at least that was the case with ATI). Also, in the playback devices screen try right clicking and selecting "display disabled devices". My HDMI monitor doesn't have speakers but when I had an ATI card and I did that I could see all the un-assigned HDMI audio outputs, it might be that the speakers in the monitor aren't enabled because most people don't use them.

Here's an example from my control panel and playback devices;



Once you've got it showing like that you can set it to be your default playback device, though I don't know how it will behave in regards to what you want to be able to do as I don't use anything other than my speakers for anything other than voice chat