libao configuration on Windows systems

[honjarado]

On Windows there is no ~/.libao or /etc/libao.conf
C:\Users\$username\.libao does not seem to work.

How to set the internal player to play only through a specific (not-default) audio device, or if that not possible, a non-default audio driver?

I've tried and disliked the performance of external players on Windows.

[nonwill]

On Windows, WMM audio driver output (ao_wmm.c should be the default/only one in libao) is used. So ~/.libao or /etc/libao.conf is not a must.

[vedgy]

@nonwill, the question is about an audio device, not audio driver.

https://www.xiph.org/ao/doc/config.html and https://www.xiph.org/ao/doc/drivers.html tell how to configure the device.

The relevant code indicates that libao looks for the same file paths on all platforms (unless overridden during compilation and unless my GitHub search missed something). Check if the used HOME environment variable exists. If not, set it to your preferred location of the .libao file. Probably best to set it to C:\Users\$username or C:/Users/$username in order to avoid changing the default behavior of other applications that use this variable.

[nonwill]

@nonwill, the question is about an audio device, not audio driver.

Two ways to select the/an audio device, system wide or app only: