One of my favourite new features of Mavericks is the ability to direct all audio output from your computer to Airplay enabled speakers. Meaning at last that I can “throw” Spotify onto my airplay speakers without having to use my iDevice.
So you want to do this – well one way is to go into preferences, open sound, choose output and select in there. That’s a bit long winded, why not just use this shortcut…
Hold down the option (alt) key while clicking on the speaker icon in the menu bar and it will bring up a list of all devices that you can send your audio output to.
Select the ones you want and hey presto.
you’ve just saved my life,
I was looking for this for so long
Awesome tip. Have been looking for this for ages! I can’t believe it was as simple as holding down the alt key!
Hmm. My Mac isn’t switching on Airplay this way, but it will switch back to internal speakers! Cruel! Thanks for the tip. I’m sure I’ll get it working.