Fix Can't Play || Another App Is Controlling Your Sound At The Moment Error || Windows 10/11
3Fix Can't Play || Another App Is Controlling Your Sound At The Moment Error || Windows 10/11
While listening to a podcast on the Spotify app, if you try to open and play anything from Groove or any other music/ video-related app, you may see an error message stating “Another app is controlling your sound at the moment“. Usually, this problem doesn’t happen a lot, but if you are facing this error on your device, then, there is a faulty setting causing this issue.
After starting the Windows Audio service, the problem should be fixed. Few users claim that you can fix this problem simply by stopping the Windows Audio service and restarting it, so feel free to try that as well.
Issues addressed in this tutorial:
another app is controlling your sound at the moment. to listen here close that app and try again
another app is controlling your sound at the moment windows 10
This tutorial will help you if you receive the following error message when playing media in your Windows Media Player, Groove app or the Film & TV app in Windows 10:
Can’t play. Another app is controlling your sound at the moment. To listen here, close that app and try again. Error 0xc101009b (0xc00d4e85)
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Huawei and Samsung.