Question / Help Opening OBS lowers the volume of any app playing sound to 10%

drewbabe

New Member
This is really mysterious and only started happening today!

If I have an app playing music (Spotify, Firefox on Soundcloud or Youtube) and I open OBS Studio, the app's mixer level gets set to 10%, which is strangely also what OBS Studio is set to when it starts. For Spotify, it will stay that way until I restart Spotify or close OBS Studio. For Firefox, it will stay that way until I stop/start whatever audio it's playing (I don't need to restart Firefox.)

I have a log from me starting OBS while Spotify is playing music, then closing OBS. It doesn't seem to indicate anything strange to me, but maybe someone here will be able to identify the issue? I can't get the log uploader on this site to work, so I'll just use pastebin: http://pastebin.com/sM8EetR6

I don't have any other apps running that would affect my mixing settings. I think this is purely OBS.

While I can work around this by opening the mixer and putting the app's volume back where it belongs, it would be nice to not have to do that! Any help is appreciated!
 

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Harold

Active Member
Check the communication settings in the sound control panel.
It's a windows thing not an OBS thing.
 

drewbabe

New Member
Oh, thanks! I'll blame this on me being mainly a Mac user ;)

So I guess because OBS listens to my mic, it's considered communication activity? I wonder what changed to make this start happening now.

Well, at any rate, you have solved my problem and have my thanks.
 
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