Windows 10: Audio from Pc is playing through Headset Microphone

Whenever I am playing Spotify or i am watching a video while on a call with someone on discord, the audio from Spotify or the video would play through my mic for some reason. My mic has been completely fine until now and I cant find a solution anywhere, I have tried everything, I have gone into the properties of my mic and have fiddled around with all the settings and it still wont work, I have turned the microphone boost down to 0, I've unchecked listen to this device and I've unticked allow applications to take exclusive control of this device and changed the default format. I have tried eve

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Headset microphone (with audio splitter) not working

My Acer Predator (Helios 300) laptop has a singular audio port, which I use with my headset that has a separate microphone and headphone cable. I have used an audio splitter to get around this issue for a while now, and it has worked perfectly fine. Normally
when I would plug the splitter in, a prompt would appear asking what type of device was just plugged in, options were headphones, speakers, microphone, headset, and one or two other options that I don't remember because I never used them. I would select "headset"
and it would work just fine. Recently, something changed. This prompt no longer appears, and my computer no longer acknowledges the microphone on my headset, instead using the default internal microphone. The headphones still play audio like normal, but I
have found no way to get the microphone working.

If I just plug the microphone chord into the audio jack, it still does not work, and the computer refuses to play audio.

So far I have tried:

• Uninstalling and re-installing the audio drivers (multiple times)
• Updating windows
• Running the audio troubleshooters (Both for playing audio and recording)
• Checking for updates to Dolby
• Scanning for hardware changes in device manager
• Disabling the default microphone

None of these have done anything.

I'm really at a loss here. I consider myself pretty computer savvy but nothing I've tried has gotten me anywhere.

 

Headset playing sound through microphone

Hey, the cable from my headset broke and now I got a new one, problem now is, my audio from my pc is playing through my microphone.

Things I have tested:

1. removing the microphone does not fix it, it still plays the audio

2. if I change to another microphone in my settings, it stops (so the problems is something inbetween?)

3. I reinstalled the drivers

4. I checked various settings on and off (on the microphone and headset)

I think the cable is the problem here, but it doesnt make sense that a cable makes the headset play the audio through the microphone, even if it isnt plugged in.

If someone can help me that would be awesome.

Thanks

 

Computer won't recognize headset microphone

This is what i see in device manager. Im not sure if the Speakers/Headphones (Realtek High Definition Audio) is the one your saying to disable, as that is what is default in playback devices in the sounds panel.

Setting Stereo Mix as the default recording device and disabling everything else still didnt get the mic working, even when the headset is plugged into the microphone only audio port or the mic + sound audio port.