Win7下修改默认音频设备的方法

Microsoft kept the API which changes the default sound playback device closed, for good reason. Drivers and control applet applications from different manufactures would mostly certainly end up ‘fighting’ over the default device, which would be terribly confusing and effectively makes the hardware incompatible. There are legitimate reasons for one to wish to change the default playback device from the command line or programmatically, but the needs are generally isolated to a single user or a group of users looking for something highly specialized. A friend of mine needed just this kind of solution for switching from headphones to speakers (without clicking a few times and without opening new windows).

I’ve simply wrapped the information in the aforementioned MSDN thread into a console application. The application uses undocumented API; while it works on Windows Vista and Windows 7, is it very likely to become broken with the next version of Windows. This isn’t something you can rely on.

Here is the undocumented and private COM interface which is used by mmsys.cpl to interact with the Audio service (credit goes to EreTIk obviously):

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// PolicyConfig.h
// Undocumented COM-interface IPolicyConfig.
// Use for set default audio render endpoint
// @author EreTIk
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
#pragma once
 
interface DECLSPEC_UUID("f8679f50-850a-41cf-9c72-430f290290c8")
IPolicyConfig;
class DECLSPEC_UUID("870af99c-171d-4f9e-af0d-e63df40c2bc9")
CPolicyConfigClient;
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// class CPolicyConfigClient
// {870af99c-171d-4f9e-af0d-e63df40c2bc9}
//
// interface IPolicyConfig
// {f8679f50-850a-41cf-9c72-430f290290c8}
//
// Query interface:
// CComPtr[IPolicyConfig] PolicyConfig;
// PolicyConfig.CoCreateInstance(__uuidof(CPolicyConfigClient));
//
// @compatible: Windows 7 and Later
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
interface IPolicyConfig : public IUnknown
{
public:
 
    virtual HRESULT GetMixFormat(
        PCWSTR,
        WAVEFORMATEX **
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE GetDeviceFormat(
        PCWSTR,
        INT,
        WAVEFORMATEX **
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE ResetDeviceFormat(
        PCWSTR
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE SetDeviceFormat(
        PCWSTR,
        WAVEFORMATEX *,
        WAVEFORMATEX *
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE GetProcessingPeriod(
        PCWSTR,
        INT,
        PINT64,
        PINT64
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE SetProcessingPeriod(
        PCWSTR,
        PINT64
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE GetShareMode(
        PCWSTR,
        struct DeviceShareMode *
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE SetShareMode(
        PCWSTR,
        struct DeviceShareMode *
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE GetPropertyValue(
        PCWSTR,
        const PROPERTYKEY &,
        PROPVARIANT *
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE SetPropertyValue(
        PCWSTR,
        const PROPERTYKEY &,
        PROPVARIANT *
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE SetDefaultEndpoint(
        __in PCWSTR wszDeviceId,
        __in ERole eRole
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE SetEndpointVisibility(
        PCWSTR,
        INT
    );
};
 
interface DECLSPEC_UUID("568b9108-44bf-40b4-9006-86afe5b5a620")
IPolicyConfigVista;
class DECLSPEC_UUID("294935CE-F637-4E7C-A41B-AB255460B862")
CPolicyConfigVistaClient;
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// class CPolicyConfigVistaClient
// {294935CE-F637-4E7C-A41B-AB255460B862}
//
// interface IPolicyConfigVista
// {568b9108-44bf-40b4-9006-86afe5b5a620}
//
// Query interface:
// CComPtr[IPolicyConfigVista] PolicyConfig;
// PolicyConfig.CoCreateInstance(__uuidof(CPolicyConfigVistaClient));
//
// @compatible: Windows Vista and Later
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
interface IPolicyConfigVista : public IUnknown
{
public:
 
    virtual HRESULT GetMixFormat(
        PCWSTR,
        WAVEFORMATEX **
    );  // not available on Windows 7, use method from IPolicyConfig
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE GetDeviceFormat(
        PCWSTR,
        INT,
        WAVEFORMATEX **
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE SetDeviceFormat(
        PCWSTR,
        WAVEFORMATEX *,
        WAVEFORMATEX *
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE GetProcessingPeriod(
        PCWSTR,
        INT,
        PINT64,
        PINT64
    );  // not available on Windows 7, use method from IPolicyConfig
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE SetProcessingPeriod(
        PCWSTR,
        PINT64
    );  // not available on Windows 7, use method from IPolicyConfig
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE GetShareMode(
        PCWSTR,
        struct DeviceShareMode *
    );  // not available on Windows 7, use method from IPolicyConfig
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE SetShareMode(
        PCWSTR,
        struct DeviceShareMode *
    );  // not available on Windows 7, use method from IPolicyConfig
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE GetPropertyValue(
        PCWSTR,
        const PROPERTYKEY &,
        PROPVARIANT *
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE SetPropertyValue(
        PCWSTR,
        const PROPERTYKEY &,
        PROPVARIANT *
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE SetDefaultEndpoint(
        __in PCWSTR wszDeviceId,
        __in ERole eRole
    );
 
    virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE SetEndpointVisibility(
        PCWSTR,
        INT
    );  // not available on Windows 7, use method from IPolicyConfig
};

We simply enumerate the devices and choose one via the command line:

#include "stdio.h"
#include "wchar.h"
#include "tchar.h"
#include "windows.h"
#include "Mmdeviceapi.h"
#include "PolicyConfig.h"
#include "Propidl.h"
#include "Functiondiscoverykeys_devpkey.h"
 
HRESULT SetDefaultAudioPlaybackDevice(LPCWSTR devID)
{
    IPolicyConfigVista *pPolicyConfig;
    ERole reserved = eConsole;
 
    HRESULT hr = CoCreateInstance(__uuidof(CPolicyConfigVistaClient),
        NULL, CLSCTX_ALL, __uuidof(IPolicyConfigVista), (LPVOID *)&pPolicyConfig);
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
    {
        hr = pPolicyConfig->SetDefaultEndpoint(devID, reserved);
        pPolicyConfig->Release();
    }
    return hr;
}
 
// EndPointController.exe [NewDefaultDeviceID]
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    // read the command line option, -1 indicates list devices.
    int option = -1;
    if (argc == 2) option = atoi((char*)argv[1]);
 
    HRESULT hr = CoInitialize(NULL);
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
    {
        IMMDeviceEnumerator *pEnum = NULL;
        // Create a multimedia device enumerator.
        hr = CoCreateInstance(__uuidof(MMDeviceEnumerator), NULL,
            CLSCTX_ALL, __uuidof(IMMDeviceEnumerator), (void**)&pEnum);
        if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
        {
            IMMDeviceCollection *pDevices;
            // Enumerate the output devices.
            hr = pEnum->EnumAudioEndpoints(eRender, DEVICE_STATE_ACTIVE, &pDevices);
            if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
            {
                UINT count;
                pDevices->GetCount(&count);
                if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
                {
                    for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
                    {
                        IMMDevice *pDevice;
                        hr = pDevices->Item(i, &pDevice);
                        if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
                        {
                            LPWSTR wstrID = NULL;
                            hr = pDevice->GetId(&wstrID);
                            if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
                            {
                                IPropertyStore *pStore;
                                hr = pDevice->OpenPropertyStore(STGM_READ, &pStore);
                                if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
                                {
                                    PROPVARIANT friendlyName;
                                    PropVariantInit(&friendlyName);
                                    hr = pStore->GetValue(PKEY_Device_FriendlyName, &friendlyName);
                                    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
                                    {
                                        // if no options, print the device
                                        // otherwise, find the selected device and set it to be default
                                        if (option == -1) printf("Audio Device %d: %ws\n",i, friendlyName.pwszVal);
                                        if (i == option) SetDefaultAudioPlaybackDevice(wstrID);
                                        PropVariantClear(&friendlyName);
                                    }
                                    pStore->Release();
                                }
                            }
                            pDevice->Release();
                        }
                    }
                }
                pDevices->Release();
            }
            pEnum->Release();
        }
    }
    return hr;
}

You can download the application and source project. (MIT License)