Stream audio stutters when interacting with Fluxer while streaming Desktop

(#2828) Bug Confirmed desktop video voice

Observed behaviour

Stream audio keeping cutting in and out. Doesn't appear to happen in app specific streams.

Reproduction steps

  1. Join a voice channel on two separate devices.
  2. Start a full desktop stream with audio on the streaming device.
  3. Open the stream on the watching device.
  4. Start playing audio on the streaming device.
  5. Interact with Fluxer on the streaming device (change channels or communities as an example)

Build information

Canary Desktop 2026.521.73855, Web 2026.521.81000, Windows 11 10.0.26200 (x64), Electron 41.2.2, Chrome 146.0.7680.188, Node 24.14.1, Locale en-GB

Platform

Windows

Details

Expected behaviour Steam audio should continue to play smoothly.
IMG_8812.mov | 37.2 MB
  1. Rex changed the status from Needs triage to Confirmed

3 comments

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Comment by Fullest
FullestReviewer 1 vote
Can reproduce CR: Canary Desktop 2026.521.203326, Web 2026.521.212604, Linux 7.0.9-104.fc43.x86_64 (x64), Electron 41.2.2, Chrome 146.0.7680.188, Node 24.14.1, Locale en-US
Comment by Caus
CausMod 1 vote
Can reproduce CR. Canary Desktop 2026.527.223435, Web 2026.528.190418, Linux 7.0.10-1-cachyos-bore-lto (x64), Electron 41.2.2, Chrome 146.0.7680.188, Node 24.14.1, Locale fr
Comment by loyka32
loyka32Reviewer 1 vote
Can reproduce Confirmed - Tested together with Caus. - Canary Desktop 2026.523.203010, Web 2026.528.190418, Linux 7.0.9-arch1-1 (x64), Electron 41.2.2, Chrome 146.0.7680.188, Node 24.14.1, Locale en-GB