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I can't stand this feature, because it overrides my OS-level choice. If I select my headset as the microphone to use, then I expect it to be used. But Zoom mi

I can't stand this feature, because it overrides my OS-level choice. If I select my headset as the microphone to use, then I expect it to be used. But Zoom might use a different microphone, so I need to change it there as well. In addition, even if I select "System default microphone", that doesn't always work correctly. As far as I can tell, that option doesn't mean to attach to the default source. Instead, it means to attach to the same source that is currently bound to the default source. If I change the default source later, Zoom doesn't get moved along with it.

wil421 4y ago
Same issues here. I don’t care that my dock has a mic port that Zoom and Teams think they should automatically use. Use the damn system setting for my hardwired headset mic.
- shaan7 4y ago
  Yeah the dock thing sucks. My workaround is to permanently disable the dock (and the webcam's) mic device.
mijoharas 4y ago
Some recent update of zoom and or pipewire made this absolutely broken. I need to manually go and change my Bluetooth headset source from A2DP to HSP before opening zoom or it crashes and I can't select any microphone. It's insanely annoying. Zoom has caused more crashes ob my machine than any other piece of software.
shaan7 4y ago
True. I keep it at "System default microphone" but its not 100% reliable. BUT, that is also the case with every other conferencing tool as well (Meet, Teams etc). At least in Zoom its easier to quickly override it when things go south.
scarface74 4y ago
My wife had a mixer attached to her Mac where she plugged in her phone for music and her wireless mic when she was teaching online dance classes during the height of Covid. She absolutely needed to be able to switch to the mixer which registers as a sound input device separate from system settings when she was doing anything else.

wil421 4y ago

Same issues here. I don’t care that my dock has a mic port that Zoom and Teams think they should automatically use. Use the damn system setting for my hardwired headset mic.

shaan7 4y ago
Yeah the dock thing sucks. My workaround is to permanently disable the dock (and the webcam's) mic device.

mijoharas 4y ago

Some recent update of zoom and or pipewire made this absolutely broken. I need to manually go and change my Bluetooth headset source from A2DP to HSP before opening zoom or it crashes and I can't select any microphone. It's insanely annoying. Zoom has caused more crashes ob my machine than any other piece of software.

shaan7 4y ago

True. I keep it at "System default microphone" but its not 100% reliable. BUT, that is also the case with every other conferencing tool as well (Meet, Teams etc). At least in Zoom its easier to quickly override it when things go south.

scarface74 4y ago

My wife had a mixer attached to her Mac where she plugged in her phone for music and her wireless mic when she was teaching online dance classes during the height of Covid. She absolutely needed to be able to switch to the mixer which registers as a sound input device separate from system settings when she was doing anything else.