audio - Is there a way to stream certain sounds through my mic?

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2014-07
  • james

    So for example, if I wanted to stream music from youtube through my headset to the people in my skype call, is there any way I can do that?

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  • wiz3kid

    If you are using Windows, change the audio input device in Skype to "Stereo Mix". This will pipe all audio output to audio input.


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  • surfmadpig

    I'm on a laptop with Windows XP, and Skype has been giving me weird problems. Whenever I open it up, I have found it auto-selects the wrong microphone input "microphone" instead of front mic, assuming I have a plug-in mic installed (which I never do). Each and every time I open Skype, I have to have my audio deck open and re-select the proper mic.

    Not only that, but whenever a call starts it reverts to the plug-in mic selection AGAIN, and I have to select the proper one again, which doesn't always work. I have also found that it changes the mic setting universally and doesn't change it back not even when I exit the program. I've tried to change the setting in Skype options but it only gives me one option for mic anyway, which is, surprisingly, the correct one. What to do?


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  • Michael Pryor

    Do your mics show up under the Device Manager control panel? If so, can you try deleting (or disabling if thats an option) the one you don't want to come up? (Of course that will cause problems if you ever try to plugin a mic, but that doesn't seem to be an issue).

  • sandip Layek

    If you have more than one mics just go to the Skype. and then Tools -> Options -> Audio settings -> Uncheck 'Automatically adjust Microphone settings' and 'Automatically adjust speaker settings'.

  • Pops

    I recently started using Skype, and also had a similar problem. Got a Dell Dimension 9150 (Windows XP Home) with onboard SigmaTel Audio, and it has a front mic jack and a rear mic jack.

    Its not exactly the same setup as yours, but maybe there are some similarities. (okay, its more than a year ago the questions was asked, but others may stumble upon this.)

    Whenever a call in Skype was connected, something in the software/drivers made the rear mic the current input, even though I had beforehand manually selected front mic and the jack was plugged into that one. Quite annoying and strange.

    Searching the net, I found on Miguel Carrasco's Real World - "Vista Microphone and Line-In Issues?" a comment by Gopiein dated april 15 2007, which suggested to;

    • go into Control Panel
    • choose SigmaTel Audio
    • activate checkbox Allow Jack Reconfiguration Pop-ups and press OK

    After a reboot (maybe not needed), the SigmaTel driver now detects which jack is physically connected, and selects that as the current input. Or line in if neither.

    It solved my problem.