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Cycle through available audio devices with key binds(shift+a,ctrl+a). Change "wasapi" on line 1 to your relevant audio api.
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| local api = "wasapi" | |
| local deviceList = mp.get_property_native("audio-device-list") | |
| local aid = 1 | |
| local function cycle_adevice(s, e, d) | |
| mp.enable_messages("error") | |
| while s ~= e + d do -- until the loop would cycle back to the number we started on | |
| if string.find(mp.get_property("audio-device"), deviceList[s].name, 1, true) then | |
| while true do | |
| if s + d == 0 then --the device list starts at 1; 0 means we iterated to far | |
| s = #deviceList + 1 --so lets restart at the last device | |
| elseif s + d == #deviceList + 1 then --we iterated past the last device | |
| s = 0 --then start from the beginning | |
| end | |
| s = s + d --next device | |
| if string.find(deviceList[s].name, api, 1, true) then | |
| mp.set_property("audio-device", deviceList[s].name) | |
| deviceList[s].description = "•" .. string.match(deviceList[s].description, "[^%(]+") | |
| local list = "AUDIO DEVICE:\n" | |
| for i = 1, #deviceList do | |
| if string.find(deviceList[i].name, api, 1, true) then | |
| if deviceList[i].name ~= deviceList[s].name then list = list .. "◦" end | |
| list = list .. string.match(deviceList[i].description, "[^%(]+") .. "\n" | |
| end | |
| end | |
| if mp.get_property("vid") == "no" then | |
| print("audio=" .. deviceList[s].description) | |
| else | |
| mp.osd_message(list, 3) | |
| end | |
| mp.set_property("aid", aid) | |
| mp.command("seek 0 exact") | |
| return | |
| end | |
| end | |
| end | |
| s = s + d | |
| end | |
| end | |
| mp.observe_property("aid", function(id) | |
| if id ~= "no" then aid = id end | |
| end) | |
| mp.register_event("log-message", function(event) | |
| if event.text:find("Try unsetting it") then | |
| mp.set_property("audio-device", "auto") | |
| mp.set_property("aid", aid) | |
| end | |
| end) | |
| mp.add_key_binding("A", "cycle_adevice", function() | |
| deviceList = mp.get_property_native("audio-device-list") | |
| cycle_adevice(1, #deviceList, 1) --'s'tart at device 1, 'e'nd at last device, iterate forward 'd'elta=1 | |
| end) | |
| mp.add_key_binding("Ctrl+a", "cycleBack_adevice", function() | |
| deviceList = mp.get_property_native("audio-device-list") | |
| cycle_adevice(#deviceList, 1, -1) --'s'tart at last device, 'e'nd at device 1, iterate backward 'd'elta=-1 | |
| end) |
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had a similar issue to AverageHoarder above where it'd get stuck on certain entries while cycling on Linux, fixed it by checking for
on line 7 instead of the
string.findto check current selected device (since some devices are just named for the API directly on Linux, e.g. the default alsa device in the sample list above)not sure if there are other considerations though but works for me, thanks for the script!