How to play music or a video with sound in Teams on a Mac

Share your screen with sound

1. In the meeting, click Share.
2. Turn on Include sound.
3. Choose the screen or window with your video or music.
4. Play it. If it was already playing, pause it and play it again.

Everyone sees what you share and hears your Mac’s sound. That means all of it: Microsoft warns that notifications are shared too, so turn on Do Not Disturb first. Where Include sound is, and what to do when it’s missing, is in share sound in Teams.

The Teams audio driver on a Mac

On a Mac, Teams can only share sound once its own audio driver is installed. The first time you turn on Include sound, Teams may offer to install it. Say yes, then restart your Mac when it asks. Microsoft also offers the driver as a download from its Teams help page on sharing sound.

If Include sound is on and people still hear nothing, the driver is the usual reason. Our no sound when screen sharing guide has the full checklist.

Play music without sharing your screen

Teams hears one microphone. If the music goes into that microphone along with your voice, everyone hears both, at the levels you choose, and you don’t have to share anything.

Patch, which we make, does this on a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later. It mixes your mic and up to four apps into one microphone called Patch Mix.

1. Add your microphone and the music to Patch. Open Patch, add your microphone, then add the app that plays the music or video: Spotify, Music, Safari, Chrome or a video player.
2. Set the music under your voice. Turn on Send for both, and pull the music’s slider down until it sits under your voice. Turn on Hear locally so you hear it too.
3. Choose Patch Mix in Teams. In Teams, open Settings, then Devices. Under Microphone, choose Patch Mix. Under Speaker, choose your headphones.
4. Turn off noise suppression. In the same place, turn Noise suppression off, or set it to Low, so Teams doesn’t remove the music.
5. Go live. Click Go live in Patch. Everyone in the meeting hears your voice and the music, and you never have to share your screen.

Wear headphones, so your real microphone doesn’t hear the music a second time. Always choose your headphones as the speaker in Teams, never Patch Pass-Thru.

Send just one browser tab

Showing a YouTube video or a clip from a website? Include sound sends the app you share, or everything your Mac plays if you share the whole screen. Patch for Chrome, our free extension for Chrome, Edge and Arc, sends only the tab you pick into Patch Mix, so the meeting hears the clip under your voice and none of your notifications, with no screen share.

1. In Patch, add a Chrome tab. Then add Patch for Chrome from the Chrome Web Store and pin it.
2. On the clip’s tab, click Patch in the toolbar, then Send this tab.
3. Keep Patch Mix as your microphone in Teams.
4. Click Go live in Patch. The meeting hears the clip under your voice.

It works with the Teams desktop app. If you join Teams on the web instead, Patch for Chrome won’t send the meeting’s own tab, so nobody hears an echo. See share tab audio in any call.

Stop Teams cutting the music

Teams is built for voices, and its noise suppression can chop music up. This matters most when the music goes through your microphone.

• Noise suppression: in Settings › Devices, set it to Low or turn it off. In a meeting, it’s under the arrow next to Mic, then More audio settings.
• High fidelity music mode: in the same menu, if your Teams has it. Microsoft says it’s made for music rather than speech.
• Mic Mode: if your Mac’s Control Center shows Mic Mode during a call, choose Standard. Voice Isolation removes music.

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