{"id":213,"date":"2015-12-02T08:11:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T08:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2021-02-28T20:03:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:03:41","slug":"itunesplayback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/itunesplayback\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix: iTunes won&#8217;t play audio after switching sound device on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick one.<\/p>\n<p>If you're using the generic Microsoft drivers for audio on your laptop, you might notice that\u00a0you have separate audio devices for the built-in speakers and for headphones:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sounddevices.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-214\" src=\"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sounddevices.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sounddevices.png 414w, https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sounddevices-269x300.png 269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you\u00a0don't have any headphones\u00a0plugged in, your default device will be the speakers; when you plug headphones in, your default device changes to the headphones. All well and good.<\/p>\n<p>Most applications aren't bothered by this change in sound device, and will happily keep playing through the new default. iTunes, however, has some issues with this process, and will just sorta hover there with the playback bar not moving and no sound coming out. When you restart it, everything works great, but who wants to do that every time they plug their headphones in?<\/p>\n<p>The solution is surprisingly simple. In iTunes, click\u00a0the menu icon, choose Preferences, and go to the Playback tab. The Play Audio Using option will be set to Windows Audio Session. Change it to Direct Sound, hit OK and restart iTunes for what is hopefully the final time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/itunesplayback.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-215\" src=\"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/itunesplayback.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/itunesplayback.png 351w, https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/itunesplayback-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that's it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick one. If you're using the generic Microsoft drivers for audio on your laptop, you might notice that\u00a0you have separate audio devices for the built-in speakers and for headphones: When you\u00a0don't have any headphones\u00a0plugged in, your default device will be the speakers; when you plug headphones in, your default device changes to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asdfghjkl.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}