Mic keeps disconnecting

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AaronD

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NO AUDIO/LOST AUDIO IN NEW UPDATE V.29

I would like to just help anyone who has or had the same issue as me. PROBLEM: Everything was working just fine for me all this time I’ve been using OBS. But yesterday, I updated to v.29 and lost audio. Audio was coming in to my PC as I did confirm, but had no audio coming into OBS from our...
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I'm starting to suspect that there's a new bug that does this......
 
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BluePiggy

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AaronD said:
You might start here and continue down the thread:

NO AUDIO/LOST AUDIO IN NEW UPDATE V.29

I would like to just help anyone who has or had the same issue as me. PROBLEM: Everything was working just fine for me all this time I’ve been using OBS. But yesterday, I updated to v.29 and lost audio. Audio was coming in to my PC as I did confirm, but had no audio coming into OBS from our...
obsproject.com obsproject.com
I'm starting to suspect that there's a new bug that does this......
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Thank you but this seems to be about audio and not the microphone, not sure it's the same thing . Geforce did have an update and I've applied that now so wondering if that could have caused it
 
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AaronD

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There seem to be several problems over there. One of them is that a non-default selection in OBS *still* switches devices automatically. That's the suspected bug that might apply here too.

I haven't had it happen to me, but I don't have anything that would appear or disappear automatically, like some do for "power saving". Do you have something like that?
 
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BluePiggy

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No I don't think it's that I didn't need to change the setting, just unplug and plug back in. My pc kept making the noise when a USB is unplugged too even when I hadn't unplugged it, then it'd stop working. So weird!
 
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AaronD

Active Member
BluePiggy said:
I didn't need to change the setting, just unplug and plug back in.
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Re-plugging causes the OS to rearrange things. If OBS relies on the order and not the names, then that could do it.

BluePiggy said:
My pc kept making the noise when a USB is unplugged too even when I hadn't unplugged it, then it'd stop working. So weird!
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Ah! You DO have something that disappears automatically! That's another rearrangement.
 
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AaronD

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BluePiggy said:
What do you mean sorry?
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If you start with:
  1. MicA
  2. MicB
  3. MicC
  4. MicD
  5. MicE
and you set OBS to use MicC, that's device #3. If you remove MicB (or it shuts down automatically, or whatever) then the OS might rearrange the list to:
  1. MicA
  2. MicC
  3. MicD
  4. MicE
Now, if OBS goes by name, then it stays with MicC, which is what you want. If OBS goes by number, then it switches to MicD, even though it wasn't default, and that would be a bug.

The disconnection sound means that *something* has gone away. If that something is a mic, then the above could very well be what's happening. You don't have to unplug it: lots of things have automatic shutdowns, which are practically the same thing, and the computer can't tell the difference. Those things are annoying, but they're everywhere, in the name of "saving the environment"...until you throw them in a landfill because they keep wrecking your workflow!
 
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