Windows 10: Bluetooth audio doesn't play on all programs

I've had a wireless bluetooth headset for a while now. Very often, only some programs output sound when they're connected. For example, skype, zoom or any other sort of video / voice chat program only outputs sound from that program, and other programs such as chrome of a game doesn't produce any sound. When I disconnect from the call, usually the sound returns.

There are some programs, most of them being steam games, where for the life of me I can't get the program to output sound no matter what I do.

I can connect my headset to my PC through using a wired adaptor and all programs output sound perfectly find then. The same also happens when I'm using a dedicated wired headset so it's only a problem when I'm using wireless headphones.

I've tried updating sound drives and my PC but they're up to date and it doesn't fix anything.

Does anyone know a fix to this problem? Thanks in advance.

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Can't select paired bluetooth speaker as sound output (Windows 10)

I just got a new bluetooth speaker, an Urbanears Stammen (concrete grey)

I can connect to it from my phone, using Bluetooth, and play back sound no problem. But I can't get my Windows 10 laptop (Dell XPS 15) to use it as a playback device.

I can connect and pair to it no problem, as you see in the screenshot below





It also shows up under bluetooth in the device manager. It's not listed under "Audio inputs and outputs", which I thought it should be, but I can see it under "Sound, video and game controllers".





But I can't select it as a playback device





I found this relevant superuser question: Windows 10 computer paired w/ bluetooth speaker, but doesn't send music to speaker

And I tried the suggested steps listed there, but nothing helped

Any further ideas I could try?