How to Play Music During a Skype Call on Windows

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I'd like to be able to play music in a Skype call so everyone can hear it.

Here's everything I tried:

  • Setting the microphone device to Stereo Mix. People can hear music but obviously can't hear me since I'm talking through the microphone.
  • Then I got a brilliant idea and made a new Skype account, ran a second instance of Skype and added my Radio Bot to the call. I've set it's microphone to Stereo Mix and the microphone on the real Skype is set to the actual mic. That works well but the problem is that I can also hear the music it's playing in the call, which means Stereo Mix picks it up and plays it again. It loops and there's a horrible echo.
  • Next thing I tried is actually lowering the output volume in the real Skype and increasing it in the Radio Bot Skype. That way I can hear people in the call through the bot but the bot doesn't hear the music that it's playing to the call.
    Everything is great I thought.
    I was wrong.

The problem is, when people talk, I can hear them, which means that Stereo Mix picks up on it as well. It ends up in people hearing themselves.

Back to the drawing board.

  • Next thing I tried is Virtual Audio Cable. The idea is to play Chrome (that's playing music) to a separate audio device and set the Radio Bot to listen to that device. Unfortunately, Chrome doesn't allow me to change it's output to another device and I don't know what else to try.

Is this possible, and how can I do it?

Best Answer

I found a way to do this with Virtual Audio Cable and 1 Skype open.

  1. Open VAC Control Panel and make 2 lines
  2. Open 4 Audio Repeater(MME)s
  3. Set the First to Wave In: Line 1 and Wave Out: Speakers or primary output device
  4. Set the Second to Wave In: Primary Microphone and Wave Out: Line 1
  5. Set the Third to Wave In: Primary Microhone and Wave Out: Line 2
  6. Set the Fourth to Wave In: Line 1 and Wave Out: Line 2

Once this is done set Line 1 as your default playback device in Windows and as Line 2 as your default recording device .

Make sure when you change your Skype settings to also have Line 2 as your microphone and your primary output device as the speakers.

This will make it so both you and your caller can hear any audio that comes from your computer (youtube, spotify, pandora, etc.). You can still talk and you won't hear yourself in an echo and neither will the party on the skype call.

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