StaticAudioDevices

A Windows utility that monitors and maintains your default audio device settings.

Installation

1. Download the latest release
2. Place StaticAudioDevices.exe in shell:startup or place it somewhere else and create a scheduled task for it.
3. Set your devices how you want them to stay before first launching StaticAudioDevices.exe
4. Run it once.
5. Profit???

Configuration

%appdata%/StaticAudioDevices holds both the config.json and also log files.

Reset default

Delete config.json and run the program again to generate it again.

Change Monitoring Interval

Adjust Interval in the config.json file. In seconds.

Building the Project

Requirements

• Windows 10/11
• Visual Studio 2022 with:
  • Windows SDK (10.0+)
  • C++ Desktop development workload
  • C++14 compiler support

Dependencies

• nlohmann/json (header-only, included)
• Windows MMDevice API
  • ole32.lib
  • mmdevapi.lib

Using Visual Studio 2022

1. Open StaticAudioDevices.sln in Visual Studio 2022
2. Select build configuration (Debug/Release)
3. Build (Ctrl+Shift+B)

Using Developer Command Prompt

1. Navigate to project directory
2. run msbuild StaticAudioDevices.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64

Output

The compiled executable will be in:

• x64\Release\StaticAudioDevices.exe (Release build)
• x64\Debug\StaticAudioDevices.exe (Debug build)