While on a call I can hear the participants audio through my computer speakers while playing music through bluetooth speakers while sharing my screen. Is there a way others on the call can do the same, hear me through their computer speakers and my shared screen through seperate bluetooth speakers? Tried briefly last week but could not get it to work
I don’t think so.
If I understand correctly, you are on a Zoom call, and hear the call through your computer speakers. At the same time you have some music playing (Spotify, Apple Music, WinAmp, etc.) and that is coming out of a bluetooth speaker you keep nearby.
If that is the case, then you are using the local audio routing capabilities of your computer to separate the two audio sources. This is easy enough to change in Zoom, just select the computer, bluetooth speaker, headset, etc. as the audio output device.
Your music playing application has selected a different audio device—the bluetooth speaker—as its output. This is something you may be able to configure in the music application, or might be something you have to configure in the operating systems audio settings.
If what you want is for other people on Zoom to hear both you speaking, and the music you are playing, then that should be possible, because I’ve been on calls where people talk over a video. I’m not sure of the exact steps to make that work, but probably something about screen sharing the application playing the music.
However, those other people on Zoom will be receiving a single audio signal which is both your voice and the music you are sending. They can set their Zoom to use their bluetooth speaker as the audio output device, but then your voice will also come out the bluetooth speaker.
There are features in Netflix, Hulu, and things like WatchParty that will let people sync their own separate media streams, but also let them talk to each other. I’ve never used something like that, so I don’t know if it can make happen what you want, or how easy they are to use.
You’re right, no way they can seperate the audio of music and talking, but I found a workaround - a Zoom call at the same time as a Skype call, on different devices. One is used just for music, the other for talk. The one for music goes in another room to avoid interference and echo, and the sound is sent by Bluetooth.