I'm a member of an online chromatic harmonica forum with members from around the world.  When we meet weekly via Zoom, we sometimes take turns playing our instrument for both entertainment and critique.  Up to this point, I've played by turning off "noise suppression" (setup for musicians) and I play a backing track from a small speaker near my external mic.  I'd like to do a better job of balance.

I found that I can "share" audio via the share screen button.  When I have noise suppression OFF and am "sharing audio" to play a backing track on my computer, I find that the share audio works fine, but my harmonica playing is very distorted ... even with the noise suppression OFF.

I would like to be able to play the backing track by sharing audio, and use my external mic to play my harmonica along with the track without distortion.  Any help would be appreciated.

Here is some info about my system:

Zoom Version 5.13.7; 64-bit; noise suppression off; shared audio

HP PC running Windows 11 Home; 64-bit; Intel Core i5 w/ 16 GB RAM

Thanks!

I enter into a meeting and have no problem for a long time but then the zoom becomes slow and unresponsive and the only solution is to close the app, it's quite annoying. I've been like this for 3 months since it started happening to me,  I have 16 ram i5 3470 so I think the components I don't think are to blame

Slight disaster: I've just recorded an online interview, but now my computer won't convert the Zoom files. I'd never recorded anything on Zoom before -- in the old days, I did all my interviews in person -- so I don't know what to do. When I click on Meetings/Recorded, I can see the 2 files (it was in 2 parts), but when I click on convert, it tells me that another conversion is already in progress and to (basically) try again later. As far as I know, there's no other conversion in progress... so I can't go any further. I've also given Zoom "permission" to do all this (security etc) but that hasn't helped either. And I've tried signing out of Zoom, resetting, etc. But no use. Can anyone help?  Thanks!

Stacey