Keyboard Shorcut - Swap Sound Output

I swap from "Line Out" to "Headphones" all day long, and every time I do so I have to go to System Preferences>Audio and change the setting. Does anyone know how I can do this from the keyboard?
Thanks!

there are no keyboard shortcuts for this and you can't make one. but I highly recommend Soundsource for this task.
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/
it lets you do it from the menu bar and has headphone autodetection.

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I have both and haven't experienced this at all. Very strange. I do get a lot of random channel changes however when I put my iPad on the remote, the cat walks over it or the dog sits on it.
That being said, I don't use the Samsung remote at all for the TV and never have done. I dislike it and find it unresponsive. I use a different remote to change through the available outputs and the Vision remote for Vision and for switching the TV on and off.
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Sound output device

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Recently I have been experiencing problems with my sound in my iMac with OS X 10.6.2
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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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PRAM RESET
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Hi everyone -
One of my favorite keyboard shortcuts on the Mac is "option + volume up" (or volume down) keys. This automatically opens system preferences and takes you to the sound preferences. I must use this at least a dozen times a day.
I recently got a new (non Apple) keyboard, and while it does have option and volume keys, the above shortcut does not work. Does anyone know what key commands the computer receives to cause the sound preferences to open?
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never knew about this shortcut. pretty useful. I also have to access this pane very often to switch between sound output devices. this got very annoying and I found this freeware
[Sound Source|http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies>
try it out. it's even quicker than using your shortcut.

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1. Start with the steps recommended in this support article. Don't skip any of the steps. It's the starting point for further efforts to solve the problem.
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sp1 does and you have to install them yourself.
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if you get a slipstreamed version of xp you dont need to do this as it installed usb2 drivers rightaway.
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2. System Preference > Sound > Output
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