Chat messages and other Teams notifications no longer mute your other apps.
What was wrong: new Teams plays its notification pings through the same
WebView2 child process as its ringtone, and Chromium keeps that audio session
open and looking "active" for several seconds after a sound has finished. Ring
detection watched exactly that, so a chat ping looked the same as an incoming
call and everything went quiet for a few seconds.
The fix: ring detection now measures how loud Teams actually is, rather
than whether its audio session is open. It reads the peak level of Teams' own
playback (the number behind the moving bar in the Volume Mixer) five times a
second while a Teams session is active, and counts it as ringing after roughly
2.5 seconds of real sound within an eight-second window. Teams' notification
chime is audible for about a third of a second, so it takes six pings inside
eight seconds to reach the bar, while a ringtone passes it easily.
Nothing else changed: still no microphone, no audio contents, no internet.
Upgrading: run the installer over the top, it keeps your settings.
| Download | Use it if |
|---|---|
TeamsAudioDucking-Setup-1.4.2.exe |
normal install (per user, no admin) |
TeamsAudioDucking-1.4.2-portable.zip |
no install, just run the exe |