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Mac audio guides
How to get music, a clip or any app’s sound into a call or a stream on a Mac, and how the tools that route audio compare. Written by the team that makes Patch.
Your Mac’s sound in calls and streams
- Share tab audio in any call
One Chrome, Edge or Arc tab into Zoom, Teams or Meet, no screen share.
- Play music through your mic
Music, a clip or a game into Zoom, Discord, Meet or OBS, with your voice.
- Play music on Google Meet
Tab audio, system audio, or music in your mic without presenting.
- Share audio on Google Meet
Tab audio, system audio, the “share a tab instead” message, and no presenting.
- Play music on Discord
Music for the whole voice channel, without a screen share.
- Share audio on Zoom
Share Sound, Computer Audio, or audio in your mic, and the setting that keeps music.
- Play YouTube on Zoom
Share Sound for a video, Computer Audio, or just the YouTube tab in your mic.
- Play music on Teams
Include sound, the Mac audio driver, or music in your mic with no share.
- Share sound in Teams
Include sound, the Mac driver, tab audio in a browser, and sound with no share.
- Play music on Webex
Share computer audio, Music mode, or music in your mic with no share.
- Play music in a huddle
Share system audio in Slack, the permission fix, or music in your mic.
- No sound when sharing
The sound switch in Zoom, Teams, Meet and Slack, and the Mac permission.
- Share audio, no screen
What Zoom, Meet, Teams, Discord, Webex and Slack allow, and the mic way for all.
- Call app sound, compared
What ten Mac call apps can do with sound: shares, no-screen sound, browsers, music.
- Discord stream, no audio
Why Mac stream sound fails, what to try, and sound for the whole voice channel.
- Watch YouTube together
A watch party on Zoom or Discord, with the video’s sound clear for everyone.
- Play a video in class
A clip with sound in a Zoom, Teams or Meet class, with your slides still up.
- Soundboard for Meet
Sound effects in Meet, Zoom, Teams or Discord, under your voice, no presenting.
- Zoom fitness class music
Your cues on top and the music under, for yoga, spin or dance classes.
- Play Spotify in a call
Your voice with Spotify under it, and what Jam and Listen Along do instead.
Mac audio routers compared
- Loopback alternatives
Loopback, BlackHole, VB-Cable, Soundflower and Patch compared.
- BlackHole alternatives
What the BlackHole setup takes for a call, and what mixes for you.
- Loopback vs BlackHole
A $99 router against a free driver: price, setup, mixing and volume.
- Soundflower alternatives
Soundflower won’t run on Apple silicon. What does its jobs now.
- Voicemeeter for Mac
Voicemeeter is Windows only. What does its jobs on a Mac, and VB-CABLE.