I'm running OBS 30.1.2 on a Win11 machine. For whatever reason, I have no audio output from any mp3 Media Source from OBS. It shows playing on the OBS mixer just no audio output. The mp3 files play correctly through Windows Media player. This used to work with prior OS and OBS versions the last time that I used it (about a year ago). I cannot figure out what has changed. I've tried various Windows and OBS settings with no luck.
Any ideas?
Okay, I registered here just for this because it has been one of the bigger OBS thorns I've dealt with lol.
I've had this issue over the past year as well. My audio mixer shows active and my audience can hear alerts and other audible features, but it does not come through for me as the broadcaster. It's common enough that I habitually run checks after every update to ensure OBS is working properly before going live.
I haven't found a consistent troubleshoot that addresses this problem. However, I cycle through few things until it seems to magically fix itself. It's frustrating and sometimes I have to cycle repeatedly for almost an hour. Here are the things I do:
-The most obvious-- Open and close OBS, sometimes "run as administrator"
-swap scene collections back and forth
-Open Advanced Audio Properties in you mixer, check/uncheck the 'Active Sources Only' box, while switching between scenes.
****Open Settings, under Audio, change your Monitoring Device, hit okay, then switch back to whatever you had it as, then change scene collection.
^ this last option is what seemed to be the magic fix this time. I wrote it down exactly as I did it. The next time this happens, this will be my first step, and I am pretty certain it won't work lol. Anyway, until someone helps identify a simpler solution, this is the best I got.
So those are basically the things I do in varying order until the problem is solved. I hope someone can offer better insight than me.
