[Desktop] Select default sound device for Spotify Connect

[sanraal]

Currently Spotify defaults to using the default sound device when launched, it would be neat if you could choose which sound device you want to use instead in the options screen.

Thanks

[secutor666]

You can't use this feature anymore in spotify, you have to use the new windows feature that does the exact same thing. Just read through the last comments here in this thread and you figure it out. 

[Bramzistor]

Oh, I didn't know about that.  Thanks!

[secutor666]

Yeah, didn't know it either. But this feature is useless since windows updated the way audio devices are managed. Pretty good change imho. Works fine for me now. 

[user-removed]

 They really should mark this thread closed now that the feature is standard in Win10.

[secutor666]

Yeah and they should mention why on the first page. I totally missed this awsome windows feature when it came out in early 2018. And I was asking for it for years. 

[rszmetro]

What about Macs?

[Ivellios]

This option has one giant flaw: causes Spotify to leak memory. After months of pushing back and forward messages with Spotify Cares via Twitter (multiple support guys ehh...) and hearing that they do not support Windows 10 WIB or Linux (they finally did something when I mentioned MacOS though -- which is weird, but... ok), I have finally found issue myself. The reason was this extra run option. 

If you chose to use this option, after some time (random) your songs will stop playing. The song progress bar will get to the end and stop at 0:00. Play/Pause button will not work at all. Nothing will work. 

But if you look at your Windows Task Manager the memory use will constantly grow. Finally reach 99%. Windows will start to page the memory swapping with drive. But at one point Windows will say: "no more" and crash. In my case it somehow destroyed boot records for the partition and gave me lots of headackes.

So this is a warning to anyone who would like to use this option: it will most probably crash your Windows 10 and may cause lots of more damage. Do not use it. 

It is a shame that Spotify after so much time didn't provide audio device pick option in settings within normal run mode. I feel angry about that as well. Also because I wanted to use their API for the app I create, but now I do not know if popularizing such buggy and unsupported software is a good idea. 

I leave this message for anyone who in the future might come across the same issue. It took me 4 months of fighting Spotify support to finally find out myself what is the reason. I guess someone who would do reverse engineering of their app would faster find the exact issue reason, than their devs team, because they seem to support no platform at all. And still take money for premium from people like us. Sad...

Cheers people! Good luck!

[secutor666]

Since windows 10 supports this natively now in the audio settings, there is no need for Spotify to work on this anymore. 

[gvl]

What they need to work on is WASAPI exclusive mode, but it is not going to happen.

[secutor666]

Okay. But since you can pick specific apps now and link them to audio output devices, why is this still necessary in spotify? It works great now without any memoy leaks. And I had so many problems with this as well. I had so many BSODs before I figured out that you can do this within Windows now. But you have to disable this start parameter. It's broken. It causes a conflic with this new Windows setting.