

The easiest way to do this is to right click on the volume mixer icon in your taskbar and select ‘playback devices’. Remember, this should be the device you want everything except spotify to play through. First, in windows select your default audio device. With the simple addition of this rather wonderful piece of (free update: equalify is no longer free according to comments from readers, it now costs $5) software I can happily play spotify through my amp via bluetooth while keeping everything else through my ‘default’ laptop speakers. So if I want my system sounds to come out of my laptop speakers (rather than, for example, conducting skype conversations via my amp) it means I have to play music through the laptop speakers as well. However, the standard setup in windows means that you have one ‘default’ sound device, and that’s the one that spotify uses. That’s not really a problem, since I have one of these which allows me to play music from my laptop via bluetooth to the amp. However, my nice amp with its decent bass levels and all the rest is sat in the living room. My setup when I’m working is that I sit at my desk in the kitchen, with spotify open to have some nice background music going on. Just a quick post today about how to solve a common (maybe) frustration…
