Use system default sound devices in Skype

Hi,
Basically, I would like Skype to automatically select whatever device is set as default here in the Playback options:
so that I don't have to manually change it in the Skype options each time I switch from headphones to speaker and vice versa, which I do a lot.
And the "Automatically adjust speaker settings" option doesn't seem to help.
Is there a way to do that on the latest version on Winodows 8.1?
Thanks in advance.

Microsoft removed the system default device from the options list.
This may help: http://alvarorojas.github.io/SkypeAudio/

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