Windows 10: Airpods not playing sound while connected to device

Hello! I bought a Bluetooth usb, so I can connect airpods and listen music with them. It tells me, that they are connected but when i wear them, the sound doesn't appear and the connected sound doesn't appear either which it should also the sound icon in the bottom right corner of my taskbar says, that there are no in/output devices connected. I tried reinstalling the bluetooth drivers, removing and re-connecting my airpods but still nothing changes. So they seem to be connected but dont give sound and win doesn't recognise them.

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Connecting airpods

My airpods are saying their connected and I never had a problem before with them. The sound keeps playing through the speaker instead of the airpods but their clearly connected. I really absolutely hate this computer since it was listed as being a good
computer and its complete trash but it never didn't connect and work properly. Its a stupid hp windows 10 if that means anything but shouldn't. I just want to know why it isn't playing through my airpods but says connected.

 

airpods paired but not able to connect

my airpods used to connect and work fine with my surface but all of a sudden they stopped connecting and playing sound through them when connected to the computer. (the airpods work as supposed to with apple devices).

I tried unpairing them and repairing them which didn't work.

I tried following suggestions from both Microsoft advisers and others on here, like going to device manager and looking at power properties, or human interface devices or setting my airpods as the default sound option; none of these worked.

my mom has also had these issues on her older model surface.

I've tried many different ways and honestly kinda mad at this point so, someone please help me

 

Airpods not playing ALL PC audio

Hi everyone,

I have a specific issue about certain sound sources not playing through bluetooth-connected Airpods. This problem is occurring on an HP laptop that runs Windows 10. The issue is that audio from Spotify and Youtube plays through my Airpods, however audio
from a Zoom meeting does not and continues to play out of my laptop's speakers, even when, for example, Spotify is playing through my Airpods simultaneously.

In the Bluetooth devices settings page, under the Audio section, it says my Airpods are 'Connected voice, music". I believe the "music" part of that is why sound from Spotify and Youtube will play through the Airpods but not audio from Zoom, for example.
I want ALL sound from my PC to go through my Airpods. Any ideas how to fix this? I do not own another set of bluetooth headphones.

I have tried going into the Advanced audio settings page titled "App volume and device preferences", under which I can specify which apps go through which audio output. Even when I changed Zoom's setting to go through my Airpods, the Zoom audio was not routed
to my Airpods and continued to play through the laptop's speakers.

Thank you in advance.