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From:

"Chip Orange" <lists3717@comcast.net>

Subject:

RE: Changeing the default playback device in Windows 7

Date:

Sun, Sep 29, 2013 9:04:25 pm

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Hi Rod,

Below are a few lines of VBScript which I found in an example, showing how
to use WMI to get a list of all soundcards on a pc (and one of the
properties it shows is the "id", which maybe is the same property which you
are passing on the commandline to your .exe).

Hth,

Chip

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _

& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\" & strComputer & "rootcimv2")

Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_SoundDevice")

For Each objItem in colItems

speak "Description: " & objItem.Description

speak "Device ID: " & objItem.DeviceID

speak "DMA Buffer Size: " & objItem.DMABufferSize

speak "Manufacturer: " & objItem.Manufacturer

speak "MPU 401 Address: " & objItem.MPU401Address

speak "Name: " & objItem.Name

speak "PNP Device ID: " & objItem.PNPDeviceID

speak "Product Name: " & objItem.ProductName

speak "Status Information: " & objItem.StatusInfo

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From: Rod Hutton [mailto:rhstuff@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 7:29 PM
To: gws >> gw-scripting
Subject: Changeing the default playback device in Windows 7

Hi everyone,

I found this page through google where you can download a zip archive
containing an executable as well as resources for Python and a Visual Studio
C# project for an app which changes the default sound device in Windows 7.
The executable works on my Windows 7 x64 system perfectly, and I figured it
would work fine in 32-bit Windows 7. I was hoping to integrate the
executable into a WE app, but I can do no more than specify a specific sound
device ID on the executable command line, like this:

Endpointcontroller.exe 0

Which would make the first sound device on the system the default. Indeed,
specifying no ID on the command line displays a list of all the playback
devices, but I tried every DOS trick I know to try to store this list to a
text file in order to be able to work with it, to no avail. Of course, I
could make an app which just cycles through, say, 5 IDs, just to try to
cover as many situations as possible, but this is kind of a cheezy approach.
Anyway, if you have time an interest, check it out and see what you think.

Here's the URL:

http://tomchuk.com/post/changing-the-default-playback-device-on-windows-7-wi
th-less-clicking-4

Cheeres,

Rod

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