Audio Now Toggles Off & Greys Out When Enter Play Mode, Regardless of Project/Scene/Unity Version?

Whenever I hit the play mode button to start playing in the editor, the Scene View Audio toggle button toggles off and becomes unclickable. If I exit play mode, I can now toggle it back on, but starting play mode again will toggle it off like a gremlin is screwing with me.

This started happening in my main game project around May 2018. In unity 2018.1.2f1 ish. I've used Unity for four years on this system, dating back to abou 5.1, and have never had this problem before.

I cannot hear audio in play mode no matter what.

It also happens in brand new installations of all succeeding Unity versions.

This happens regardless of what project I have open. Even in brand new empty projects, even in the default scene.

The sound works FINE in builds, just auto-disables in Editor play mode.

This happens regardless of whether there is an Audio listener existing or enabled in the scene.

This happens regardless of whether VR Oculus settings are enabled.

This happens regardless of whether the Oculus Dash is on or off.

Sound works totally fine in all other cases on my computer. Totally normal youtube, games, etc.

I just re-installed Unity 5.0.0f4 to see if this retroactively happens in old versions of Unity as well. It DOES. Now the Scene View Audio toggle auto-toggles off when entering play mode even in Unity 5, even in a new empty project. WTF. What is going on?

This is driving me nuts because it means I can't work on the sound for my game for the past several months. Does anyone have any hints why this would start happening or where to begin looking?

Why would this happen ONLY in the Editor Play mode, and ALWAYS in any Unity version or project, but not in any builds? Again, actual Windows builds of games sound FINE.

Unity 2018.1.2f1 personal. Windows 10 64 bit. 32 gb ram, geforce gtx 970, amd-fx 4130 quad core processor 3.8 ghz

 

SOLVED: I can't believe it. In the Game View window, there's a button I couldn't see that says Mute Audio because the window was too small. Apparently it's been toggled on for the last two months. Untoggling it, solved the whole problem. I found the answer in another thread after all this time. Nuts. I'm am surprised this setting was 'saved' across all versions of Unity, but that was apparently it.

 

This was driving me nuts too! Thanks so much for posting the solution!

 

Oh....my....god. This was happening to me too. Was driving me soooo crazy.

 

i swear this already happened to me in 2017 but here we go again in 2020 thanks again !

 

Updated an old project to new Unity version and had the same issue. Thanks

 

Thanks man, It was very usefull, you dont have Idea

 

Happening for me in 2020.3. Not fixed by toggling Mute Audio.

 

mine too,

 

mine too

mine too

 

Has anyone reported this issues as a bug yet? I'm using 2020.3.f16 and the issue still exists for me. i can't find any help in making sure the scene's audio toggle won't get disabled every time i enter playmode.

 

I also just faced this problem, surprisingly stumped me, a long time user! Note, both SCENE and PLAY views have mute buttons, which complicates things probably more than necessary...

 

I'm getting this in 2021.2.11f1. The "Mute Audio" button in the game window is not on. Every time I click the "Play" button, the scene's "Toggle audio on or off" button is automatically disabled. This is frustrating. Any idea what is wrong?

 

Same here

 

Thank you so much @westingtyler . Its 11:30pm and I FINALLY can hear sounds

 

2020.3.30f.1 - This does it with mine as well, there's no reason I can see why it's doing it.

 

Note*: In simulator mode there is no "Mute Audio" so do select "Game" mode in Game window.

 

Put simply
- There is a mute button in the game window.
-There is a mute button in the Scene window.

If your button is greyed out one or both are muted.

To fix unmute Both.

 

I had a similar problem with the audio not playing, and was fixed by adding the audio listener component to the main camera.

 

same thing was happening to me, thank you for the solution

 

its not working, i tried clicking the mute/unmute in the game tab, did nothing as it was already not turned on, the audio was already set to unmuted yet the in scene audio toggle turns grey after i hit play anyways

 

2020.3.38f1 Audio toggle in Scene turns off and becomes greyed out on Play. The audio toggle in Play works (I can click/ toggle it on and off) but there is still no sound

 

I've been working in the Simulator view the grand majority of the time, and it does not have the mute/unmute button.

After switching back to the Game view, I found that it was set to muted. Thanks for the tip.

 

Dude..... I was on the cliff.... thanks for saving my life

 

This was driving me mad too till i saw the Mute/Toggle button in scene view and got to this page. Didn't spot the Game view icon one either!

 

For anyone still tryna solve the issue, go into your sound settings on windows, then check if audio output for unity is set to default. If it is, try switching it to another output. I chose headphones realtek and it works fine. Also make sure the audio is toggled on in the game view

 

Mine was out of view because my game view is in a diferent window but now this helped me

 

my audio immediately turns off when I hit play.

 

Theres an audio toggle in the game windows and the scene window AND makeshure you have an audio listener on objects you want to listen for audio with

 

Unity 2022.3.16f1 Mac
audio toggle still grays out on play in Editor window. Audio toggle in Game view turned on

 

you just saved another live in 2024 thanks

 

unity 2023.1.17f1
I have unmuted both the game view and in the editor.
The editor mute toggles to off and is greyed out the moment I hit play, before the game even starts playing.
Once I stop the game, I can unmute it again, but it just mutes itself when I try again.

 

2022.3.7 - suddenly sound stopped working. Both Scene/Game tabs not muted. hit Play - scene tab automagically switches to disabled. and sound has stopped being played although the script is called and you can see on the mixer it is playing.

Someone must have a good fix?

 

Wheres the button?

 

they are but it wont work