Great to see progress, but I'm still staggered that such a fundamental, basic feature seems so difficult for Adobe to fix. No other software on my laptop has this issue.
Cheers
Ian

Any update on this feature for PC/Windows?

So glad to see this in the works!

That's great news that this is being implemented. I have wasted too much of my life in the Audio Hardware prefs panel :)

"Wait--I'm on Mac OS and this still happens. There's a fix?"
You're holding it wrong. (that is an old iPhone joke that maybe only I remember)

Open "Preferences>Audio Hardware..." and in both the Default Input and Default Output dropdown select "System Default". Now Premiere/Audition/AME/Rush/After Effects will use the Mac OS audio device that is default, and switch the device when the OS switches.

Wait--I'm on Mac OS and this still happens. There's a fix?

Please fix this. I'm losing money checking my audio hardware settings every day.

This also has my support! Glad it's fixed on Mac, but please don't think that this isn't also useful on Windows. I edit whenever I have time to work it in during my day while doing other things, and naturally shut off my Bluetooth headset to save battery when I'm not using it. That means that every time I have a few moments to edit, I have to restart Premiere to get the headset to work. This is an earflick with measurable time lost (reloading program, figuring out where you left off, etc.)

Looking forward to the fix. Thanks for your work!

This missing feature is driving me crazy. Most times I have to restart the **** software because changing the output mutes the audio, i.e IT'S NOT WORKING! Come on and fix this already!

Intuitive Audio hardware features that let Premiere connect to external audio interface, ect... automatically.

Have you installed the NDI driver? Please check that "Preferences>Playback>Audio Device..." is set to 'Adobe Desktop Audio'.

Check Preferences > Audio Hardware. This situation will be improved in an upcoming version.

The audio system is not heard. Other files and sites on the device sound fine, but only this application does not produce sound. I also have a picture of the error notification window.

Hey, i encountered a bug with the premiere pro settings for the audio devices.

I often switch between devices in windows.
Playing a game, using the headphones, changing to the speakers for a video, than changing to steam streaming speakers for playing games in the living room.

When you change the default audio device in windows "Settings -> Sound -> Audio Device", while adobe premiere pro cc is open, it totally bugs the selected audio device list.

My standard device in premiere are my speakers. If i change my windows device, and play the video in premiere pro, the sound comes from my vr headset. If i change the speakers to the headphones in premiere pro, the sound comes from the speakers.

If i restart premiere, the bug is gone.

My video should make it clear, what the problem is.
In 100% of my trys it was reproduceable.

Currently to set up playback, the user needs to go through 3 Preferences Categories:
- Playback
- Audio
- Audio Hardware

I think probably most users think of "playback" as video and audio happening together, and it would be nice to be able to set that up in one place with meaningful choices. In other words, it should answer the question: "On what device am I going to see this and hear this?"

The idea that I have to "enable mercury transmit" to see video playback maybe made sense to someone at some point, but now really I just want to be able to set which monitor to use for full screen playback. The techspeak doesn't help here.

Likewise, what you're doing in the "Audio Hardware" tab is essentially setting up the options for "Adobe Desktop Audio" which can then be chosen as an option in the "Playback" tab. This is overcomplicating what should be a simple option of choosing which audio hardware to use for playback - calling this "Adobe Desktop Audio" is more techspeak. To be clear - why am I choosing "Adobe Desktop Audio" instead of directly choosing audio hardware (which can be configured as needed).

Nomenclature varies from "playback" to "transmit" to "output" to "device". These all refer to the same thing: choosing an device for playback on either a computer screen, (video) interface hardware or audio hardware. This all needs to be cleaned up in a rational way, ideally in one preferences tab.

Finally - why is "Adobe DV" a built-in option in 2020?

Additional information:

I managed to get "Blackmagic Playback" to stick as the Audio Device by setting it, leaving Preferences, (at which point the sequence won't play), then opening a different sequence. This all then works as it should until you leave the project. When you come back in it often reverts back to "Adobe Desktop Audio". Sometimes it works, but not for long. You notice the A/V sync has gone out and when tested the audio is some 7 frames behind the picture. Checking in Preferences once again "Adobe Desktop Audio" has magically been selected.

Preferences/Playback/Audio Device:
Select something other than "Adobe Desktop Audio", such as Blackmagic Playback, and hit OK to leave settings. Playback via Blackmagic then doesn't work and returning to Preferences has "Adobe Desktop Audio" selected again. This means that you can't use 'offsets' in the same panel to make your monitoring in sync.

Tested with several Blackmagic drivers - always the same result.
Re-tested with cc2019 and everything works fine.

When attempting to edit, there is no output audio during playback. Levels appear in all meters across Premiere, and I have Audio Hardware set to Built-in Output. Going one step deeper into the computer settings for the audio, I am able to hear a speaker test on L & R channels.

I do have a second monitor (a LG TV) run off the computer and mapping audio to this location does NOT work either. Finally headphones do not have any audio playback when mapped and plugged in.

Audio works from other apps and playback sources (Youtube, VLC, Safari, etc.) on all these devices, except for Premiere.

How can I get audio playback?

Plus one for putting back a "built in" audio output that follows the system prefs. This used to be available and worked really nicely. Put it back.

Audio output selection in Premiere does not behave at all for me. It sometimes works, sometimes picks a random output, sometimes stops producing sound anywhere. Restarting Premiere usually fixes it but it's pretty annoying.