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[Isosceles]

Dear Spotify Developers -

Firstly, thank you for such an awesome product!

I've got several audio outputs from my PC - my speakers, my headphone DAC+amp (optical out), and my TV (nVidia HDMI audio output). Please can you add an option to select which audio device Spotify will output to? Otherwise I have to keep changing the default playback device for the system. Skype has this feature, it's very useful.

Thank you!

[George · Accepted solution]

This is a feature request.

You'll need to add it to the Idea Board.

But I think there's already an idea for this: here. Vote it up!

[Isosceles]

Thanks!!

[niklad]

Looking for this option as well!

i'll vote up this feature.

I have a hi fi system connected to my mac. I want only music to play through Hi-Fi. all the annoying youtube videos, etc should be heard on internal speakers of Mac.

[Fraeco]

This idea went up on the Idea boards on Februari 2nd of this year. More then 6 months and 191 kudos later not even a status has been added. 

Can this be review please?

[David]

Fraeco - This idea was put in place before the status' were put in place, so that's why one hadn't been added. We're going through the board and updating Ideas where we can, but it's rather a popular place so there is still some to go through.

I've now added a status to it.

[Fraeco]

Thanks! Gives us DIY media player guys a bit of hope!

[David]

I have actually had some success using different sound cards with Spotify in the past.

Sometimes, I pretend I can record music, so I've got a little Audio Interface. I have set my laptop up to have this as the default sound device, so as soon as this is plugged in, this will route Spotify playback through this.

When it's unplugged, sound goes through laptop speakers. However, Spotify plays through this just fine too. Although you guys might be using a little more of a complicated set up than I am.

[Fraeco]

Probably all sound is routed through the plugged in sound device.

What I (and I think a lot of other people) am trying to accomplish is to have the Spotify audio go through output device A and have other applications go through output B. As it is at the moment it's everything or nothing :-)

[Crank80]

Hi.

Looking for the same feature.

Found this program called "Fidelify" which have that exact possibility, it's a replacement for the Spotify client.

It's in beta version, but will be updated in a couple of weeks (at least that's what I read in the forum), mine didn't show the playlists, could scroll through them but didn't see the text, so good enough for me, but I can at least choose a different audio playbackdevice than Windows default. Here's a few links:

Forum that is recommending this program: http://superuser.com/questions/366986/change-spotifys-sound-output-device

The actual program: http://www.fidelify.net/

And a norwegian forum where the creator "talks about the program" (In norwegian ;) ): http://avforum.no/forum/generell-htpc/113775-fidelify-high-fidelity-spotify-client-asio-wasapi-convo... 

Using Fidelify for playback using my Spotify- login.... Been using it for a few minutes now, and works lika a charm so far. :D

Hope this helps you guys until Spotify manages to get this feature implemented in their program.