Many monitors support audio over HDMI, and they also come with a speaker or an audio port to connect to an external speaker. These speakers show up as HDMI Playback devices. However, if they don’t, ...

In Windows 11/10, the default audio output device is the device that Windows uses to play sound – this can be speakers, headphones, Bluetooth headset, or other audio devices connected or built-in to ...

Microsoft has confirmed that the January 2025 Windows security updates are breaking audio playback on some systems with external DACs (digital-to-analog converters). DACs are commonly used at home, in ...

Microsoft has released the May 2023 optional cumulative update for Windows 11, version 21H2, with fixes for audio and printer install problems. KB5026436 is a monthly non-security preview release ...

Windows 11 still uses old Bluetooth codecs that reduce audio quality to enable microphone use, but there's a fix.

Windows Media Center won’t survive the upgrade to Windows 10, but DVD playback will. Gabriel Aul, an engineering general manager at Microsoft, wrote on Twitter that existing Windows Media Center users ...