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Sharing system audio in Teams from a Mac
- Aug 25, 2020
Hi KHSherwood
Microsoft are working on Share System Audio for Mac per this uservoice
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/32616083-share-video-and-audio-during-meetings
Share video and audio during meetings is released on Windows. Mac support is now planned for CY20Q3.
Not currently there yet but coming soonUPDATED 30/06/2021: Share System Audio is now available and has been released
Share system audio during meetings – Welcome to UserVoice!
Hope this answers your question
Best, Chris
davidhinse indeed this is absolute garbage.
We are forced into using TEAMS by our administration and its underwhelming at best, and grossly impedes our work at worst.
This is an example in the "grossly impedes" category. You can't even do simple presentation from a mac with audio.
TEAMS should not even be released if its not fully functional with what is, let's be honest the basics. The issues we have had with Microsoft Teams have caused so much time and so many lost opportunities that would NOT have been had we been able to use a proper software that was tried and tested, not this half baked 'product'.
Profiteering on the part of Microsoft during a critical time when people need REAL meeting/screen sharing solutions pretending they had a functional product...why am I not surprised? Lest we forget the anti trust lawsuit brought against Microsoft not so long ago...i'd say pretending they have a functional online meeting/screensharing solution included in their suite is akin to making it difficult for competitors software to be used/installed/available on machines running their suite/institutions with suite buy in...and yes, that's what they were sued for by the US gov (and lost) in the 90's.
I've worked on many international projects prior to teaching and have used plenty of solutions like Go To Meeting and Zoom that actually work. I literally just had to give my students admin passwords i'm not supposed to have to install zoom (the FREE version) on school computers for this to work. Last week I was all set to present an Audio in Adobe Premiere Workshop on my mac and was forced after finding out the audio wouldn't share to do it from my PC laptop which can barely run premiere and has a tiny screen and that's in the past 7 days...
Quit messing with inane features like together view and just make the basics work already.
We here in Denmark can fully understand the frustration. From our above administration we musicteachers are forced to use Teams. Musicbusinees people like me use Mac. And what exactly is impossible to share with my musicstudents? Music! Zoom can share computersound. Meet can do it. Discord can do it. And for the record some of us Danish teachers luckily for our health and our students have a very loose relationship to regulations that make no educational sense.
I totally agree with the Microsoft anger. I have had it for years, and the non-finished Teams platform just push my limits once more. The thing that bothers me is 1) My students need to explore, find out, combine 2) The administration need to save money on software solutions. 3) Microsoft Teams is a shell. Not a platform.
- nlundqvistMar 17, 2021Brass Contributor
Martin_Gerup the feature should be really close to General Availability.
Circled is share system audio in my teams for Mac client.
- TJorisMar 18, 2021Copper ContributorWhich country are you in?
- nlundqvistMar 18, 2021Brass ContributorSweden
- Lanarn1949Mar 18, 2021Copper Contributor
nlundqvist How did you get the button for sharing music on Mac?
- nlundqvistMar 18, 2021Brass ContributorWe are in a targeted release tenant and I am also running public preview in the client. That might be a reason as to why I have it.