SwitchAudio - Yet Another Audio Device Switcher

[Shark.Formax]

# 🔈 SwitchAudio Alfred Workflow

 

https://github.com/dkarter/alfred-switch-audio

 

Yet another audio input/output switching interface for SwitchAudioSource

Tested with Alfred 5 and macOS Monterey.

 

## Motivation

All the other workflows I tried were incompatible with macOS Monterey, so I
figured it would be easier to just build my own

 

## Prerequisites

You need to have both SwitchAudioSource and JQ installed on your mac. This is
most easily done via Homebrew:

 

brew install switchaudio-osx jq

 

Also you will need Alfred Powerpack. This workflow was tested with Alfred 5 only.

 

## Installation

Download the workflow from GitHub the latest release page and open it

 

## Usage

In Alfred type

;so — to switch output device

;si — to switch input device

 

## Screenshots

Output selection

 

 

Input selection

 

[mhenrixon]

I just logged in to write you a massive thank you for providing this. Was just about to write my own workflow when I found yours, thank you for saving me the time. 

[Leftover-Waffle]

Amazing little workflow, thanks for sharing!

[Alex]

Hi, thanks for this! It works quickly, the only thing I've noticed is I don't get any notifications after the switch and it looks in the Workflow like I should?

[gingerbeardman]

I get notifications from Alfred, check you're allowing those in System Settings > Notifications.

 

 

Thanks for this workflow! The old one by mikegrb that I was using was no longer working.

Edited March 31, 2023 by gingerbeardman

[mvaneijgen]

My audio sources were a mess and I was looking for a way to clean this list up and have only the relevant audio sources I really use often. I've updated the code in the workflow like so in the "Script Filter" maybe it helps someone who is looking for something similar.

 

Below the code where DELL U2518D and DELL U2515H are the names of audio sources I never use

 

// Orignal 
SwitchAudioSource -a -t output -f json | sed s/\"name\"/\"title\"/ | sed s/\"id\"/\"arg\"/ | jq -s . | jq -n '{ "items": input }'

// Updated
SwitchAudioSource -a -t output -f json | sed 's/"name"/"title"/' | sed 's/"id"/"arg"/' | jq -s '[.[] | select(.title | test("DELL U2518D|DELL U2515H") | not)]' | jq -n '{ "items": input }'

 

Thanks for the workflow!