Comment by MarcelOlsz

1 year ago

If you alt(opt)+click the sound icon in the menu bar you can easily select your inputs and outputs. I really just want airpods with a mic and no audio quality hit so I can use it in simracing so I don't have to have an external mic arm.

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therein  1 year ago

It switches back on a whim for the most arbitrary things, though. In Windows the same can happen but I can at least temporarily disable an input if it is doing that.

Doing some things like disabling an input/output device, or an internal keyboard, or a webcam. Almost impossible. Even if there are some ways, they change so often. Let's say you have two cameras and an application that always picks the internal one. I couldn't find a way to disable the internal camera so that this app would pick the only available one.

  • aisamu  1 year ago

    I "fixed" this with a Hammerspoon snippet that monitors input changes and reverts them:

        mic = hs.audiodevice.findInputByName("MacBook Pro Microphone")
    function handle_deselected(_, type)
      if (type == "gone") then
        if not mic:inUse() then
          mic:setDefaultInputDevice()
        end
      end
    end
    mic:watcherCallback(handle_deselected)
    mic:watcherStart()

  • MarcelOlsz  1 year ago

    Ah yeah you're right. Does the "Audio MIDI Setup" Mac utility app help you here at all?

    • therein  1 year ago

      It gets close, but no way to truly pin it still. It effectively does the same thing that System Settings > Sound > Output & Input does but with a better UI making it clearer that you are making a change to the primary. But the change is still just as unpinned as it would be from the other location.