setting audio "default device"

If I remember correctly, it can be set using the waveOutOpen function, but the change does not propogate properly.  In other words, to make Windows genuinely switch is an undocumented (as of a year ago) function.

If all you need to do is control where playback ocurrs, you can use mciSendString to specify an output device.

Hope this helps.

Sorry, are you saying that you can't change the default devices, but you can change the devices used inside your program for both playback and recording?  Or are you saying it will work for playback but not recording?

How do you use mciSendString to specify an output device?
Thank you.

I'm saying that you cannot change the default device, but you can change the playback and recording devices that your program uses.  Actually, you can change the default device (after all, the control panel does it) but the interface is undocumented and even forcing the change requires a reboot without that undocumented interface.

If you know the device number you can specify the output device in mciSendString using the output command.  For example, to play the system "ding" sound to device 6:

mciSendString(_T("open \"c:\\winnt\\media\\ding.wav\" type waveaudio alias mywav wait"), 0, 0, 0);
mciSendString(_T("set mywav output 6 wait"), 0, 0, 0);
mciSendString(_T("play mywav wait"), 0, 0, 0);

You can use the waveOutOpen function to get device characteristics or to find a device by number: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/multimed/htm/_win32_devices_and_data_types.asp

Oh ok. We are using directSound to play and record our sound.  I guess that doesn't work then?

Thanks, that looks like it should work.