output device selection

[calebbroday]

There is a major oversite or bug where spotify does not appear in my music apps when running the desktop app. This makes it so I can not choose the channel for my digital soundboard and results in spotify coming through incorrect channels. It makes it so I can not use the desktop app on desktop which essentially is useless. I have no control over output of the app on my own computer and it just forces it to the system audio which I do not output because of my soundboard and the fact I am often recording multiple tracks on my soundboard and having spotify music over the system makes it impossible to perform workflow. Again, either oversite or current bug.

[Lyubka]

Hey @calebbroday,

Thank you for this post.

We hope you don't mind us moving your post out of the ideas section to one of our Help boards as it fits better here.

It sounds like an issue specific to your set-up. In Windows's settings you have the option to select different sound outputs per app. 

Open Settings > Click on Sound. Under the “Advanced sound options” section you can adjust it. Under the “App” section, select the Spotify app and set the new default output device.

Hope this helps. If anything else comes up, the Community will be here for you.

[tuxedobob]

Why can't you select the output audio device in the app? What is the point of the app if not to do that? Otherwise it's just an application running a web browser in the background.

[avallesalas]

Is there any option to do this on MacOS?

[Maria]

Hey @avallesalas,

Thanks for reaching out!

You should be able to change some of the settings directly through your Mac's system settings. Check the steps on this page from Apple, which you may find useful. Feel free to have a look at this Community thread as well, where you'll find more details in our replies on how to manage your audio settings.

Hope this helps! Cheers.

[avallesalas]

Oh! I was happy thinking that you provided me with the solution I was looking for, but when accessed the linked page just realised that those are the instructions to change de global system audio for my mac.

As @Markshep states in this response of the community thread, there is a need to specify the spotify audio output. The problem is solved in Windows, but not in MacOS because Windows implements a way to define the output for specific applications at an operating system level. MacOS has not implemented this functionality, and therefore it would be great for the user experience of your apple users to solve this situation.

Anyway, this is something that Spotify customers have been requesting for years, so, as stated here, it is clearly out of the product roadmap.

😞

[SXW]

I found this an article to add the feature to switch where Spotify audio outputs to:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/Mac-Change-audio-output-of-Spotify-App-ONLY/m-p/1006038...

I voted it up one because I want this 😄 
There seems to be a tool to solve this issue in the interim... 
SoundSource by Rogue Amoeba will do this most handily on a Mac: https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/

Good luck!