Deam

Does anyone know of a way to change the speaker setting from headphone to 5.1 speakers and back using hotkeys or shortcuts, as opposed to opening the speaker setting control panel? I do this frequently and am trying to find an easier way to take care of it.

Deam

If not a shorcut, is there any program that has direct access to those features?

jiiteepee

Depending on your card (which model) but if you got Audigy 2, there are 3 different 'app' to change speaker settings

1. Creative Speaker Settings
(shortcut -> create short cut for "spkset.exe", found @ C:\Program Files\Creative\<card model>\Speaker Settings)

2. CTPanel
(shortcut --> create shortcut for "ctpanel.exe", found @ Creative\<card model>\Program\WDM\COMMON -folder)

3. Control Panel: Sound And Muldimedia: Audio -tab: Advanced
(shortcut --> create shortcut for Sound and multimedia by pointing item on "Control Panel" --> _right_mouse_click_ and select "Create Shortcut")

jiitee

Deam

Thanks for the response. WHat I was more looking for more was a way to create a hotkey, batch file, or the like, where I could just switch between the settings without having to open up the actual applications.

Deam

I thought I'd bump this to see if there's any alternative. Again, I"m wondering if there is any way to create a shortcut to change speaker settings without going into the programs themselves to do it. Mind you, the Audio Console is fairly effective, but i'm still looking for a simple double-click solution.

jiiteepee

By changing the value(s) for speaker settings registry key(s) .

- find the key(s) where the settings are stored,
- export the key(s) for different spkr settings (named as setting.reg") and
- place those .reg files to the desktop

Changing setting : just dbl-click the .reg file having the setting you want to have


Does this work or not, I do not know.


jiitee

Deam

That's a good idea. Does anyone know the keys?

jiiteepee

It might be easier to write a vbscript (like this for X-Fi mode switcing --> http://forums.creative.com/creativel...ssage.id=54411) to automate the task.

Changing registry values make no changes as would be expected.

jiitee

Deam

That's beyond my ability, unfortunately. I wonder if anyoen has done this for the audigy series already.

jiiteepee

Here are 2 scripts you're asking:

Use below keys to call options.
2/2.1 --> {2}
4/4.1 --> {4}
5.1 --> {5}
6/6.1 --> {6}
7.1 --> {7}
Headphones --> {H}

If yours differs, you need to change/add those not matching.

!! You need to have Creative Audio Console installed to get these scripts working.
!! Close Audio Console before executing a script.

' ================== 1st script ====================

'----- Start Of "Headpones.vbs" ----- (Save as Headphones.vbs) ---------------------

Option Explicit

Dim WshShell
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell" )

' Start up the Audio Console
WshShell.CurrentDirectory = "C:\Program Files\Creative\AudioConSole\"
WshShell.Run "CTAudRun.exe"
' lets open the console
While WshShell.AppActivate("Audio Console") = FALSE
wscript.sleep 200
WshShell.AppActivate "Audio Console"
Wend
'
' send some keystrokes to get the speaker settings box activated
'
'
WshShell.SendKeys("{TAB}{TAB}{RIGHT}{TAB}{TAB}" )

'
' set the speaker selection to Headphones
'
WshShell.SendKeys("{H}" )
'
' exit Audio Console -panel
'
WshShell.SendKeys("{TAB}{TAB}{ENTER}" )

WScript.Quit(0)

'----- End Of "Headphones.vbs" -------------------------------------------------------------


' ================== 2nd script ====================


'----- Start Of "5.1.vbs" ----- (Save as 5.1.vbs) -------------------------------------------

Option Explicit

Dim WshShell
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell" )

' Start up the Audio Console
WshShell.CurrentDirectory = "C:\Program Files\Creative\AudioConSole\"
WshShell.Run "CTAudRun.exe"
' lets open the console
While WshShell.AppActivate("Audio Console") = FALSE
wscript.sleep 200
WshShell.AppActivate "Audio Console"
Wend
'
' send some keystrokes to get the speaker settings box activated
'
'
WshShell.SendKeys("{TAB}{TAB}{RIGHT}{TAB}{TAB}" )

'
' set the speaker selection to 5.1
'
WshShell.SendKeys("{5}" )
'
' exit Audio Console -panel
'
WshShell.SendKeys("{TAB}{TAB}{ENTER}" )

WScript.Quit(0)

'----- End Of "Headphones to 5.1.vbs" -----


How it works? Copy script and paste it to Notepad --> save as (all filetypes) --> <name>.vbs --> execute by double clicking the <name>.vbs file --> script opens the Audio Console and makes those moves you programmed into script (you'll see it on action).

Hope it works for you.

jiitee

jiiteepee

I've modified the code because using DOWN key did not work well.

jiitte

Deam

Wow, this seems to be working, I have to change some of the keys as one of them turns to 4.1, not 5.1. But it does work! Is there a way to have this "minimized" or hidden, so you don't see the application open?

EDIT:
I figured it out. I removed the ("CTaudrun.exe") out of the brackets, and added ", 0" which from Google told me this was to run it hidden.

This is awesome. Thanks a lot for the effort. It is unfortuante that creative doesn't aid in getting direct access to these features. I saw from your thread in the Creative forums that such access is more problematic, given that the X-Fi should be more usefell in that sense.

Thank you for your contribution. This is what makes the internet so great.

JRosenfeld

Try wrapping it all up in CMDOW (place cmdow.exe in your system32 folder, it adds useful commands to the cmd)

http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/index.html

See the sections 3 and 4 and examples (including hiding the CMDOW command window itself)

I use it to run a .bat file that itself causes WMP to play a specified sound file, without any windows appearing. I can't see why it would not work with a script file as well.

Deam

Thanks for the reply. I discovered, (which I put in the edit of my above post), that with a few changes to the script I coudl have it hide the application within the VBS script itself.