OwnDevices
OwnDevices is a mod intended to leave OpenAL Soft to its own device selection. By default, recent versions of Minecraft (since 1.18 or so) will check the default output device at startup, force that device, and reinitialize the entire sound system if it becomes unavailable.
I assume that this was intended to work around some issue with OpenAL Soft. However, this causes various issues of its own, most prominently music stopping when the default output changes (or sometimes even audio breaking entirely). The issues it was intended to work around may no longer even exist in the latest OpenAL Soft releases.
This mod contains a single mixin that makes detecting the default device always fail. Minecraft already handles this scenario, and will fall back to letting OpenAL Soft pick the device. It will likely work unchanged on all Minecraft versions with the relevant behavior, though it's only been tested on 1.20.1.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as owndevices-1.0.0+1.20.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 12 KB
- Download link checked 8 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.