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[Jon]

Hello,

I thought this would be easy to get but it seems more complicated that I thought. I am trying to get the name of the default audio device (as it appears in "sound/audio devices" in the controil panel)

e.g. "Realtek AC97 audio device" or "Creative Sound Blaster"

There is the following registry key-

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Multimedia\Sound Mapper

that I have found which stores this information but this key doesn't seem to appear on all PC's and one PC I tried didn't display the default device in this key.

Another way i found was to call an API (possible directX). I will see if I can find a link to it when I get home. Something about enumeration audio devices and the fist one returned is the default. It is a bit over my head though.

There must be an easier way to get this information?

Thanks, Jonathan

[engunneer]

what do you need the info for?

I just checked SoundGet, but it doesn't appear to provide this.
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