SoundSwitch Hotkey stops working after some time

What happened?

I know this is really vague but after about a day of running SoundSwitch, it just stops recognizing whatever hotkey I have set to switch the inputs.

I can right click the tray icon and quit the app. Sometimes I can relaunch it, sometimes it doesn't want to start up at all. If it does start up, then the hotkey works again.

Step to reproduce

Not sure

Version

6.11.0

What version of Windows are you seeing the problem on?

Windows 10

Relevant log output

No response

Sep 25 '24 06:09 NSExceptional

yes! its happening with me too! the same problem!

I am experiencing issues with the application on Windows 11. The problem occurs randomly; sometimes it happens frequently, other times it takes a while to occur. The program freezes and needs to be force-closed and reopened. Sometimes it not responds to the keyboard shortcut, but if I click to open it from the taskbar, it crashes and needs to be restarted.

Sep 26 '24 05:09 toddydaniel

Seeing the same problem, have to force close and then re-open and it works again.

Oct 12 '24 23:10 DataBitz

This has been an ongoing issue for me for a while now. I only use it a couple times a day and not every day, basically to switch between headset and speakers when starting/stopping playing a game. And 99% of the time, it does this, so I have to close it then relaunch it, and it takes forever to actually relaunch. Then it works, and may or may not work to switch back once done gaming, and then doesn't work again the next day. I love this app when it works, but it's to the point it's just not worth using, since it takes longer to quit and relaunch it just to make the shortcut work when I can much more quickly simply right-click EarTrumpet (when it hasn't also become broken; as I mentioned in the other issue, these two apps are both very problematic in this sense) and change the audio device there.

Oct 21 '24 04:10 vertigo220

Came here to say it's worse for me. I just tried SoundSwitch and found I couldn't even set HotKeys in the app. I could set something like a simple 'h' or 'g', which are unacceptable of course. However, settting something like 'Win-Alt-H' would not work. So it's uninstalled and into the recycle bin for me. I may come back if I see these issues fixed, but Audio Switch works perfectly for me now.

Oct 25 '24 23:10 wrecklass

same issue, to fix this i just set up a start menu shortcut to quickly relaunch it. Just create a .bat file with the contents:

"@echo off taskkill /F /IM soundswitch.exe cd "C:\Program Files\SoundSwitch" start SoundSwitch.exe exit"

create a shortcut to it in your start menu folder, and change the icon to soundswitch.exe icon.

** It is good to note that this issue seems to occur after extensive ram/cpu usage (in my experience) AI generation makes my entire PC freeze up but sound switch will still work, however loading up Fortnite will simply make it stop working.

Jan 10 '25 05:01 smalllbuddy

Yes, that can easily be done, but even with a batch file, I can just as easily switch it myself in the same amount of time, not to mention the time it takes to realize it's not working, again. I gave up on it because I need software that works. I have enough half-working software and other things to deal with, it's just not worth it to me to be constantly dealing with this, especially since I'm no longer saving any time at that point.

It is interesting you mention Fortnite, though, because 99% of the time I'm switching audio devices when starting/stopping a gaming session, and it's usually Fortnite (or was, before I quit playing it due to too many problems with it). So maybe there's some connection between that specific game and SoundSwitch. Perhaps something the dev can look into, but I'm starting to suspect development on this app has slowed to a crawl if not stopped altogether, as it's been 7 months since the last update and 9 since they've commented on an issue.

I started writing a script to make use of AHK, SoundVolumeView, and nircmd, but AHK was not cooperating and I moved onto other things and haven't revisited it. If somebody wants to make a replacement for this, that seems like the way to go.

Jan 12 '25 02:01 vertigo220

You may be onto something. I haven't played Fortnite in about 2 months and all my issues with SoundSwitch have entirely vanished.

Jan 12 '25 03:01 NSExceptional

:tada: This issue has been resolved in version 6.12.0 :tada:

The release is available on GitHub release

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