Audio swapping on Google Chrome

[Resonance]

So... a few days ago i've been having issues changing audio in chrome from my headset(usb wireless) to my speakers. before as an example, if someone had walked into my room and they wanted to listen to a video perhaps, i'd just click on the audio bottom on the bottom right and just change the playback options to my speakers. this worked beautifully for when it worked. so a few days ago, any time i would change from my headset to my speakers, all audio would just be gone and it won't play through any device i choose after this occurs (when the video is running). I've tested this on firefox, it works just as chrome used to work, so i thought maybe chrome was at fault. i uninstalled chrome, reinstalled, nothing better. then i reinstalled my drivers on my headset, then i somehow got the black screen of death, so i had to reinstall my graphics drivers then reinstall that... then got back into windows. tried out chrome again, still to no avail. so is this on chrome's part? or am i overlooking something?

anyone else having this issue?

 

[rossi94]

Don't know it, for me it works fine with my speakers + usb headset and Google chrome.

 

[Resonance]

aw
it's quite annoying, oh!
i didn't add that i can only change the audio source by closing all chrome pages, then switching to the audio source, then opening up chrome~

 

[rossi94]

Latest audio drivers installed?

 

[Resonance]

Well, for my headset, they aren't making any updates to the drivers. and i don't think motherboard audio drivers would help? i'm not too sure on that. i'm just thinking it's chrome with this headset? i'm not sure, since it randomly happened after an age of it working. i'll update motherboard audio just to clarify however. thanks though, i appreciate it.

Headset : Creative HS-1200
(The sound quality is amazing, mic quality is so-so, recharging sucks, and it hurts your ears even after over a year of trying to break them in)
may as well purchase a new headset

 

[castleite]

i have the same problem when i plug headphones into the usb audio adapter on the back of my keyboard crome will either split the audio so to sound continues to come out of the speakers and everything else, such as skype will some out of my headphones, also sometimes chrome will decide to play the audio through the headphones and as far as i can see theres no telling which one it will choose

my recommendation is close the tab and reopen it with the headphones in/out to ensure the adudio comes out of the device you want

sorry im not as much help as i should be but i cant seem to solve this problem either

 

[jarryy]

i have the exact same issue, how i resolve it is just closing chrome completely then reopening and going back to the youtube video

this issue does not happen with firefox, so something in google chrome is causing the issues not audio drivers

 

[Resonance]

jarryy, that's what i used to do to get it to work again. however that's quite annoying, just to change the audio output source. the beta for chrome worked for me for a while, until i switched to win8.

 

[navossoc]

I just created this account just to post here: P

Yes, I'm having the exactly the same issue.

Before:
I can plug/unplug the usb headset and the sound goes to the default device.

Now:
If i unplug the usb headset the sound keep going to the old device, even if he is not the default device.

Causes:
1. Google Chrome?
2. Windows 8?
3. Flash?

Maybe the problem it's on W8, don't know.
Could be a update on google chrome/flash too, that broken everything.

Anyway, very annoying.

If you find a solution please tell me

[]'s

 

[garih]

hi, i have a similar issue. im on win 7, my issue is not usb headset. but hdmi. if im watching a vid on youtube and i want to put it on the big tv, i activate the 3rd screen, switch audio to it, but the sound stays on the pc. restarting chrome doesnt help,. the fastest way i have found to fix this is logout of win and go back in, i think it is yet another example of flash crashing, chrome seems to be having some bugs with it lately

 

[SieB]

Is this whilst trying to switch when just watching flash videos like on Youtube?

If yes type this into the url bar and press enter

chrome://plugins/

On the right hand side there is a button saying Details, click that so it shows you the details, should have a - next to it if it's already set.

Then in the FLASH section on the left, if you have two different types of flash plugins listed you need to disable one of them.

This fixed it for me, not sure if it will for you though but it's worth a try.

 

[navossoc]

Is this whilst trying to switch when just watching flash videos like on Youtube?

If yes type this into the url bar and press enter

chrome://plugins/

On the right hand side there is a button saying Details, click that so it shows you the details, should have a - next to it if it's already set.

Then in the FLASH section on the left, if you have two different types of flash plugins listed you need to disable one of them.

This fixed it for me, not sure if it will for you though but it's worth a try.

You are right.

Windows 8 isn't the problem.
Windows Media Player switch audio device correctly.

I tried what you said:

I disabled this:
Name: Shockwave Flash
Description: Shockwave Flash 11.5 r31
Version: 11.5.31.5
Location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\23.0.1271.97\PepperFlash\pepflashplayer.dll
Type: PPAPI (out-of-process)

Probably the flash implementation from Google.
The problem is traced, it's on Flash.

I don't think this maybe be a good fix, because Adobe drop the support from flash and Google still provide some, so security updates may be necessaries.

Anyway, it works. It's exactly this plugin that causes this behavior.
Now we can fill a report in Google Chrome bug track

PS: Found it...
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/i...aseBlock OS Area Feature Status Owner Summary

Let's make it happen

[]'s

 

[SieB]

Glad to hear it worked

I sent them a report ages ago. Apparently though, this prob has been around since the early days of Chrome and it still hasn't been dealt with, so it looks like it's either's one of those things that can't be fixed, or the devs are just lazy