Wednesday, July 3, 2024

2024-07-03 - Bluetooth audio quality deteriorates when a game starts

    Bluetooth audio quality deteriorates when a game starts

    I was opening a game abd listening to iTunes while doing so, and all of the sudden the audio switched and the audio was terrible. It took some time, lots of  closing and reopening things and changing sound settings in iTunes and messing with sound settings and almost rebooting the system when I happened to google the right thing finally and a guy explained that this was because of opening a game and the headphones, if they have a microphone, go from being regular headphones to then being a headset since it's assumed that you're playing with others and talking to them. 
    This guy explained that in windows 11 go SYSTEM > SOUND > scroll past the OUTPUT section to the INPUT section. 


    So to regain the audio quality, the guy explained not to disable your headphones, and instead, particularly if not using the MICROPHONE, switch the input device bullet-mark pictured here at the HEADSET setting back to MICROPHONE above it for the desired INPUT device.  This will probably take a few seconds to change back to normal audio quality.
    Of course be mindful that sometimes Windows doesn't want to cooperate and the proper setting will already be selected. I found at least once that when I switched it back and fourth between HEADSET and MICROPHONE for the INPUT device, it would eventually switch back to good audio quality regardless of which setting was selected. Like as I write this, it is set to use the headset but the audio is good. Tss!
    He explained "They virtually work like 2 inputs, one is just audio out to you, the other is audio in and out, meaning they drop quality so that you can use the microphone on your headset over Bluetooth. 

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