July 6, 2011

Choose Sound Output Device on a Mac

Choose Sound Output Device on a Mac:

Now that I have beautiful Apple Cinema Display, I have the option to use either the included speakers or my headphones.

The Mac OS X 10.6 Help page on the topic explains how you can do this from the System Preferences, which isn’t the quickest way.

But from a MacRumors forum post I found:

You simply hold alt and click the speaker icon on the status bar. Then, you can choose which output source u want.

Bingo.