Use Desktop Audio for voice channels

At present voice channels on the desktop client act like phone calls, in that if your headphones (usually bluetooth) has a dedicated "phone call mode," it will use that instead of the more robust sound of desktop audio. For example, my Bose Soundwear headphones, when connected to my desktop computer, have a "Speaker" audio output for all sounds that my computer is making, and a "Headset" audio output for phone calls. The "Headset" audio output sound quality is considerably worse than the "Speker" output. There is something in the Discord application that is flagging voice channels as "phone calls" and forcing sound to only work in the "Headset" audio output and not the "Speaker" output. Something to allow us to toggle this or work around it would be great, as I currently can not use the headphones I want to use to interact with voice channels.

usonian

April 20, 2020 15:48

I also have this problem with my Sony bluetooth headphones. This is a frustrating bug that keeps me from joining Discord voice channels if I'm using any other audio application (iTunes, Spotify, Youtube, etc.). Many people like to listen to music while they work, but may also need to join a Discord channel to communicate with coworkers when necessary. Discord shouldn't be hijacking the audio quality of my entire system 100% of the time so I can be in a channel for infrequent communication.

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