Stopping audio through HDMI

miikeeyy92 · 24 Sep 2013 at 16:15

Just got to uni, and every time I plug in my external monitor the audio automatically switches to that instead of my headphone socket.

Selecting the headphones as output in settings doesn't make a difference as when I reopen settings, it has changed back.

Is there any way to force it to go through headphones only?

Thanks.

miikeeyy92 · 24 Sep 2013 at 16:31

Also; it was running with the headphone audio and HDMI plugged in before i restarted the mac.

kitkat9933 · 24 Sep 2013 at 16:40

The only thing I can think of is going to Preferences and changing manually, but by the looks of this you have already tried that.

HecFam · 24 Sep 2013 at 16:43

Would it make any difference if you actually disable the hdmi output in playback devices?

Not sure if it would re-enable itself when it is plugged in though.

miikeeyy92 · 24 Sep 2013 at 16:46

kitkat9933 said:
The only thing I can think of is going to Preferences and changing manually, but by the looks of this you have already tried that.

HecFam said:
Would it make any difference if you actually disable the hdmi output in playback devices?

Not sure if it would re-enable itself when it is plugged in though.

It re-enables itself when plugged back in. Also, even when the headphone output is selected, the icon is still greyed out in the top right corner, and hence doesn't work.

dav3evans · 26 Sep 2013 at 20:48

I usually just hold down ALT and click the speaker icon to choose which output device I want to use, but I'm assuming this is the same as going through sys prefs. Worth a try though perhaps?

miikeeyy92 · 14 Oct 2013 at 06:21

For anyone that is interested, I solved it by plugging the headphone jack in last. Its a bit crude having to unplug it every time I shut down my laptop, but it works at least.