This tutorial will show you how to share audio on Zoom. We’ll also cover how to show YouTube videos with audio to other Zoom meeting participants, and how to share music from Spotify with your audience.
How to Use Screen Sharing to Share Computer Sound on Zoom for Windows or Mac
To share computer audio on a Zoom call, you’ll need to open the app and start a new meeting. You don’t need any other participants to begin sharing your computer’s sound in Zoom. This can easily be set up before anyone else joins using Zoom’s screen sharing feature. The steps to use this feature are similar on Zoom for Windows and Mac.
To share your computer’s sound with a Zoom meeting, first make sure you have the Screen Sharing option enabled in your meeting settings. Then, click the green Share Screen button in the meeting toolbar and select the audio device you want to use. ..
You can now click the checkbox next to the Share sound button in the bottom-left corner of the window. This will ensure that audio from your computer will be included when you share your screen. Select the app you want to share audio from and when you’re ready to begin sharing, click the blue Share button in the bottom-right corner of this window.
How to Adjust the Sound Quality of Audio Shared Using Screen Sharing
Zoom allows you to share computer sound in mono and stereo quality. The default for audio shared using the screen sharing feature is mono. If you don’t like that, you can share higher-quality audio with the participants in your Zoom meeting by using the zoom app’s “share audio” option.
To share sound from your phone, select Mono (Low-fidelity). Click the checkbox next to the Share sound button to enable sharing phone sound on Zoom. ..
When you hit the Share button to begin screen sharing, meeting participants can enjoy listening to music or other audio in high quality. ..
How to Share Audio From a YouTube Video on Zoom
When you’re using Zoom to teach or for a presentation, you might want to consider watching YouTube videos with your audience. You can easily do this by combining screen sharing with Zoom’s share audio feature.
To open the YouTube video on your computer, first open the YouTube video on your computer. If you’ve opened the video in a browser, then ensure that the active tab has the video you want to show using screen sharing. If it’s open in a background tab, you’ll have to make an extra click, when you’re screen sharing, to open the video.
To share a video with others in a meeting, open Zoom and start a new meeting. When you see the screen share window, select the YouTube video from the list of tiles and check the Share sound option. ..
You can share the YouTube video with your Zoom audience by clicking the Share button. The video will begin once you hit the play button on YouTube.
How to Share Audio From Spotify on Zoom Via Screen Sharing
If you’re waiting for participants to join a meeting or taking a short break, an instrumental song can help you relax. You can share the audio of the song on Zoom using Spotify, which makes it easy to keep everyone connected. ..
To share a song with a meeting, open Spotify on your computer and find the song you want to play. Then, start a meeting on Zoom and hit the Share Screen button. To begin screen sharing, click the Share button in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
Spotify is a music streaming service that you can use to listen to your favorite songs. You can also share the songs with your friends by clicking the play button in Spotify on your computer.
How To Share Audio on Zoom for iPhone and iPad
To share audio from your iPhone or iPad in a Zoom meeting, just start sharing your screen. Your device audio will automatically be shared with the other participants in the meeting. ..
To share audio on Zoom for iPhone or iPad, open the app and tap the blue Share Device Audio: On button.
To stop sharing audio, tap the red Stop Share button. This will end screen sharing in the Zoom session.
How To Stop Sharing Computer Sound in Zoom
When you’re done screen sharing on Zoom, you can stop sharing so that your audience’s attention can return from the Spotify song or YouTube video to you. To stop sharing your screen, click the red Stop Share button at the top of the screen. ..
Zoom will immediately stop sharing your computer’s sound and video with other meeting participants if you click the red button.
How To Share Audio on Zoom for Android
Android users can share audio from their device with other participants in a meeting by using the Zoom screen sharing feature. However, by default, audio sharing is turned off on Zoom for Android. If you want to share audio with others in a meeting, then open Zoom on Android and start a new meeting. ..
When the meeting begins, tap the green Share button located in the middle of the bottom toolbar. Scroll down a little bit and tap Screen. This will begin screen sharing on Zoom on your Android phone. By default, Zoom takes you to your home screen and shows a floating toolbar that has an option labeled Share Audio: Off. Tap this option once to change it to Share Audio: On.
This will begin sharing audio with other participants. Tap the red Stop Share button to stop screen sharing and to stop audio sharing with other participants in the Zoom meeting.
Up Your Zoom Game
Zoom is a versatile service for presentations and teaching. You can make your Zoom meetings more accessible by enabling closed captioning and transcriptions. ..
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