[tintin220]

Hey everyone,

I recently got into the whole HQ audio hobby, and finally purchased a DAC for my computer, specifically the Fubar II. I have it hooked up to my Mac via USB and it works perfectly; however, every time I restart, I have to manually go and select the USB device as my primary audio source. Is there any way to set this as the default source?

Thanks!

 

[koven]

Where it says default output..

 

[tintin220]

Hey koven,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I am running Snow Leopard (sorry, I should have specified that) and have basically my settings just like what you posted; however, the problem is that I have to do this every time I start up. When I restart, the computer doesn't remember this and instead has the built-in speakers as the default output again.

Is there some sort of script I can use?

Thanks again.

Edit: Here's the image in regular size.

 

[krmathis]

No idea really.
But wonder if running SoundSource would make a difference?

 

[tintin220]

I tried SoundSource, but no luck still. ;(

 

[krmathis]

AppleScript maybe? A quick Google search led me to this: macosxhints.com - An AppleScript to change sound output device
Change the text "SoundSticks" in the script to the name of your desired output source.

Code:

[left]tell application "System Preferences" to activate tell application "System Events" get properties tell process "System Preferences" click menu item "Sound" of menu "View" of menu bar 1 delay 2 set theRows to every row of table 1 of scroll area 1 of ¬ tab group 1 of window "sound" set theOutputs to {} as list repeat with aRow in theRows if (value of text field 1 of aRow as text) ¬ is equal to "SoundSticks" then set selected of aRow to true exit repeat end if end repeat end tell end tell tell application "System Preferences" to quit[/left]

 

[tintin220]

Thanks for the script; unfortuantely, it did not work - I don't know if it's because I'm on Snow Leopard but it gave me an error.

Oy, this is quite frustrating.