Can I toggle between sound output devices on iMac?

Is there a way to toggle between the internal speakers and digital audio output, or do I have to unplug my mini-TOSLINK every time I want to use the internal speakers? Thanks!

Hi, I think you will find you need to unplug the externals..to hear the internals..
In certain circumstances/setups the externals can play music from iTunes & the internals can advise of emails..L

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Hello,
Recently I have been experiencing problems with my sound in my iMac with OS X 10.6.2
In my sound output device list, I have the following:
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This has been an issue for the past month or so.

Soundflower is an audio routing program that emulates an output. It comes in very handy for people like me who use studio monitors through an audio interface as Apple doesn't allow you to adjust the volume on such setups with a keyboard (no idea why, since it works PERFECTLY under Windows 7 on Bootcamp, but I digress). I'm not sure how you installed it by accident, but you can delete it if you don't need it.
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wHey, I've had a look through some other forums and have found solutions and so on to this problem, which is basically this:
Since the 10.6.2 Upgrade my sound output device changed from 'Headphones' to 'Soundflower (2ch)'...The three options are as follows on Sound preferences through System Prefs...
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I use external speakers, so headphones is important to me, but everytime I change it back to headphones, the next time I restart the computer it switches back to Soundflower (2ch) ... It's only on my user account as all other accounts are fine, I've reinstalled OS X already, and have even since this problem started, bought a new iMac (no, not just cause of the problem lol)... Done a timemachine restore, yet the same is happening on the new iMac, and it's driving me nuts... I've called Apple Support they suggested reinstalling OS X, I've done just that, but it's still doing it... There must be something I have installed...Any help?
I'm hoping someone has some sort of Terminal code to switch it to set to 'Headphones' as DEFAULT Output, as there is no such way to do it on Sound preferences.
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Refer to Apple - Support - Discussions - System does not store my sound preferences or Apple - Support - Discussions - Sound preferences sometimes messed up after boot for removing Soundflower from your Mac.
However, AFAIK, there is no way to make 'Headphones' the default sound output device, since the switch among built-in audio, headphones, (& optical output on Macs with a dual purpose optical/analog output jack) is controlled by what you do or don't insert into that jack.

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Can we toggle between different reports in SSRS by clicking on text box action.
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Hi.
I have an audio interface with headphone output, and the internal imac speakers. I like to toggle between them very often Right now I have to open system prefs, click on sound, and select the sound output. This is a pain. Ideally, I would like a keyboard shortcut t do this for me, but I can't find a way to do it. I had a play with automator and thought I'd solved it by getting it to record me changing sound output - but it didn't work.
Can anyone give me some relatively simple instructions on how to make this task feasible?

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Help, no sound, no sound output devices

Hi all,
I tried this over in the Tiger section with little help. About a week ago I told my grand-daughter she could plug her iPod headphones into the headphone jack on the the front of the G4. Now, I have no sound at all except for through the headphones and only the headphones show up as an output device. I have tried trashing the "com.apple.soundpref.plist" and rebooting thinking that the OS would creat a new one during startup but that didnt work (there was TWO of them in there). I also tried trashing "com.apple.audio.AudioMIDISetup.plist" but that didnt help either. I put them both back where I found them later. Those files both belong in library-preferences right? I tried zapping the Pram but having no sound I didnt get a "bong" I just listened for it to rev-up twice, still no change. I also tried the PMU reset switch. I can change the volume level with no effect except for the headphones and the sound is not muted.
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I am going to do surgery next to explore the headphone jack and the tiny speaker above it.

Slimtech,
I don't have a solution for this, but maybe some comments might help a bit...
com.apple.soundpref.plist and com.apple.audio.DeviceSettings.plist should be at /Library/Preferences.
com.apple.audio.AudioMIDISetup.plist should be at ~/Library/Preferences.
The "Audio (Built In)" section under System Profiler for my QS G4 shows no attached devices, but merely shows information about the sound card itself, with three generic outputs listed as "Internal Speaker, External Speaker, and Headphones".
Normally, you should get a startup Chime from your internal speaker even with headphones plugged in, unless perhaps the sound setting is on Mute at shutdown, which sometimes will affect/mute the startup chime at the next startup.
I would think that if the Mac thought that the headphone were still plugged in after removal, your Sound Preference Pane Output window would indicate this. If the Headphones appear in the Output window when plugged in, then disappear when removed (refresh the window by clicking another Tab then going back to the Output Tab), the System obviously recognizes their removal. Apparently, it doesn't recognize the internal speaker that it's supposed to switch back to though, for reasons unknown to me.
You might try vigorously and repeatedly plugging/unplugging the headphone plug into the headphone jack, which helped clean up the jack and restore the sound on my G3 some time back.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
Gary

No Sound OUtput Device

Morning All, Happy New Year and all that.
I have an imac G5 which is about a year old. For some time I had an optical device plugged in to the speakers, and everything was punchie keen. Now, however, I am using said device ofer an Airport Express, which if all hunky-dorie-like. Except I can no longer get sound to output on the infernal speaker. An old set of USB headphone still work, as do the speakers plugged in to the Airport.
There is no Output Device selectable if I do not use these options (and system sounds do not go through the airport thingie whatsis, but they do sound through the USB headjamacallit.
I did check to see if there is a red light on in the Headjack phoney thingie on the back of the computer, but there is no light (and I did read the fine white print above it which said "Please do not look into laser with remaining eye)
Thanks for answers and commets or suggestions.

Suggest that you also cross-post in the AirPort Express Forums where the Airport users hang out.
You may also wish to search Knowledge Base for your issue: http://search.info.apple.com/
Happy New Year to ya & all that also.

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