- redirect my music (eg Youtube music) to my Apple Homepod
- still play all other audio (eg some podcast or video) on my laptop
but it doesn't work / is buggy / either puts everything in one location or the other
Has anyone here found a good setup to redirect the audio from exactly one app to the Homepod, and keep all the rest on the laptop audio?
So basically with Audio Hijack I can do a "hack" which is: - set my laptop to play on Airplay - play some music there - then if I want to listen to something else on my laptop, I have to create an Audio Hijack pipeline to play some other app on my laptop
Obviously I would prefer the reverse: by default play everything on the laptop, and be able to play a specific app on Airplay... but this doesn't seem to be possible because the "Airplay" device "disappears" from the interface as soon as I stop setting it as the default laptop output
In my case the interface was AirPods. It was incredibly annoying when various audio software would reset its output device whenever they disconnect or auto-switch to the phone. So, I set up a multi-output device that outputs signal to the pods along with the wired headphone port, and configured audio software to output to that virtual device. After that, there is no flakiness: when the pods are connected then they get the audio, if they aren’t then they don’t get the audio, nothing else needs to be changed.
I’ve never used Airfoil though. To be honest, I feel like routing audio through a multi-output virtual audio device might defeat the point of the app if it’s meant to play to wireless devices directly.