Listening to music through headphones on the laptop doesn't work?

So I connected my Airpods to my laptop, it also shows me that they are connected, but when I want to play music on my laptop, does it only play through the speakers but not through my headphones? I can't find anything about it on Google and I really don't know what to do anymore, since I've listened to music on my laptop with my Airpods so often, I've already restarted it and completely re-added the Airpods to Bluetooth devices, but that brings everything nothing…

What can / should I do now?

My advice: buy headphones.

Low end: Lioncast LX55

Mid Class: HyperX Cloud Alpha

High end: Sennheiser Game Zero

But if you want to flexx: Beyerdynamic MMX-300

You also have to set the AirPods as an output device.

Okay thanks, but how does that work? 😂

I'll post another answer with a picture.

That's how it is done:

Thank you, now working again!