Sharing Double-Audio (Voice + Sounds generated by ...

I use Software in my computer to generate "audio-visual output" which is visible on my screen. I share and discuss this with my Skype partner. The problem is purely audio. We use no webcam.
To keep the concepts clear I define here:
"AudioMIC" to mean the audio component coming from my voice (registered by the built-in microphone-array of the computer.
"AudioPC" will mean the audio generated by the computer software, which I want to share.
For the last 2 years there was no problem. He could hear AudioMIC and AudioPC at the same time. (Of course I arrange to hear my own AudioPC over a Loudspeaker, so I know what he is hearing.) But since about 3 months ago Skype seems to have a new way of dealing with “double audio sources”. This makes it impossible for him to hear my AudioPC. Not always a problem, but usually, and it’s getting worse. When the problem occurs it is NOT a matter of being not loud enough: it is completely suppressed.
What I am about to describe IS AMAZING (I mean Point 3, not Points 1 or 2):
(1) I can hear my own AudioPC out of a loudspeaker while speaking to him (as I just mentioned).
(2) So AudioMIC and AudioPC are intimately mixed in the sound waves of the room in which I am sitting. Therefore we can assume that in the microphone signal these two components are inseparable and electronically inseparable).
(3) HE CAN HEAR MY VOICE. What he hears from my voice obviously comes from my computer microphone. And the microphone obviously registers all soundwaves AudioMIC and AudioPC which, as mentioned, are mixed up in the room. And yet when the Microphone signal gets passed to the Skype partner the component AudioPC is COMPLETELY SUPPRESSED. Like magic! Seems a subtle problem for a technical expert. How can the two components ever get untangled once mixed!
The only explanation I can think of is Skype must have introduced some novel technology (presumably a few months ago): something like a noise cancelling technique (perhaps to suppress feedback), which knows the phase and amplitude of AudioPC. Since the electrical signal AudioPC originates PC internally before being mixed with my voice, its amplitude and phase can in principle be measured while still isolated, the aim being presumably to suppress feedback. But it's hard to imagine this working so perfectly: (What about the frequency response of the microphone?). I would want to deactivate this function, if it exists? But all this is just speculation.
The question is "Anyway can anybody suggest a solution?"
I even tried using an external microphone (not the PC internal one) and also an external sound card Scarlett 2i2. But the problem was still there.
Many thanks in advance. carlo_37

i am sadoz khan

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I use Software in my computer to generate "audio-visual output" which is visible on my screen. I share and discuss this with my Skype partner. The problem is purely audio. We use no webcam. To keep the concepts clear I define here:"AudioMIC" to mean the audio component coming from my voice (registered by the built-in microphone-array of the computer."AudioPC" will mean the audio generated by the computer software, which I want to share.For the last 2 years there was no problem. He could hear AudioMIC and AudioPC at the same time. (Of course I arrange to hear my own AudioPC over a Loudspeaker, so I know what he is hearing.) But since about 3 months ago Skype seems to have a new way of dealing with “double audio sources”. This makes it impossible for him to hear my AudioPC. Not always a problem, but usually, and it’s getting worse. When the problem occurs it is NOT a matter of being not loud enough: it is completely suppressed.What I am about to describe IS AMAZING (I mean Point 3, not Points 1 or 2):(1) I can hear my own AudioPC out of a loudspeaker while speaking to him (as I just mentioned).(2) So AudioMIC and AudioPC are intimately mixed in the sound waves of the room in which I am sitting. Therefore we can assume that in the microphone signal these two components are inseparable and electronically inseparable).(3) HE CAN HEAR MY VOICE. What he hears from my voice obviously comes from my computer microphone. And the microphone obviously registers all soundwaves AudioMIC and AudioPC which, as mentioned, are mixed up in the room. And yet when the Microphone signal gets passed to the Skype partner the component AudioPC is COMPLETELY SUPPRESSED. Like magic! Seems a subtle problem for a technical expert. How can the two components ever get untangled once mixed! The only explanation I can think of is Skype must have introduced some novel technology (presumably a few months ago): something like a noise cancelling technique (perhaps to suppress feedback), which knows the phase and amplitude of AudioPC. Since the electrical signal AudioPC originates PC internally before being mixed with my voice, its amplitude and phase can in principle be measured while still isolated, the aim being presumably to suppress feedback. But it's hard to imagine this working so perfectly: (What about the frequency response of the microphone?). I would want to deactivate this function, if it exists? But all this is just speculation.The question is "Anyway can anybody suggest a solution?"I even tried using an external microphone (not the PC internal one) and also an external sound card Scarlett 2i2. But the problem was still there.Many thanks in advance. carlo_37

i am sadoz khan

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