Audio does not use mac default speaker (does not switch to bluetooth speaker)

[aviwad]

Description

situation: spotifyd is playing music on my macbook through the default speakers. I connect my airpods, and every other app outputs audio through that (even the volume controls). However, spotifyd keeps playing the song on my speakers. There is no way to switch it to my airpods.
To Reproduce

Spotifyd needs to switch with the audio selected for output in System Preferences
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Compilation flags

• dbus_mpris
• dbus_keyring
• [] alsa_backend
• portaudio_backend
• pulseaudio_backend
• rodio_backend
• USING THE COMPILED HOMEBREW VERSION

Versions (please complete the following information):

• OS: macOS monterey 12.3
• Spotifyd: 0.3.2
• cargo: cargo 1.60.0 (d1fd9fe2c 2022-03-01)

If I stop spotifyd, switch speaker to airpods, and reopen spotifyd, then the audio correctly outputs through the bluetooth speaker. So spotifyd uses the default speaker when first opened, but doesn't correctly adapt when the speakers change.

[aviwad]

Another oddity: when spotifyd correctly plays through the airpods: turning bluetooth off switches the audio to the inbuilt speaker. so the audio doesn't route correctly from the speaker to airpods: only the other way

[eladyn]

Thanks for the report! Although you have found it already, I'm just linking it for everyone else who stumbles upon this issue: The same problem was reported in librespot-org/librespot#547 for librespot (which spotifyd uses) and the issue was closed as out-of-scope for librespot. So I assume that this would apply for spotifyd as well?

Note: It might be that this problem will be resolved at some point in the near future, since a potential fix for this has landed in cpal: RustAudio/cpal#648

[nbelakovski]

I too ran into this problem and came across this report hoping to find relief for my woes. I investigate the problem and found the following:

• cpal claims to have fixed this in fix: follow default output source on mac osx RustAudio/cpal#648 (as noted above)
• librespot dev branch was updated to include this cpal fix, but librespot has not had a new release since mid-2022 (around the time the fix was made in cpal)
• librespot will not have any more new releases anytime soon

The fix to librespot is simply updating the version of cpal used. I thought I'd give it a go myself. Even if I didn't manage to get to a publishable state perhaps I could make something that works for me. I waded through a morass of twists and turns but finally I had a build of spotifyd with the updated librespot. Let me tell you dear reader, you cannot possibly understand the deep fathoms of my disappointment as I connected my bluetooth headphones, and heard the music continue coming out of my laptop speakers.

[eladyn]

I don't have a macOS machine to test, but this should be fixed now. Feel free to re-open, if it isn't.