Audacity Forum

I've come to the conclusion that this is indeed a hardware problem. In the Realtek HD Audio Manager, under 'Analog', there is a red icon for the mic in socket, and a green icon representing the headphones socket. If I plug my earphones in to mic socket, the red icon 'lights up', but when I plug them...

There is one called 'Realtek HD Audio manager'

I have one speaker icon. When I right click on icon and select: 1. Volume mixer, there are 3 controls - device Speakers, Applications, System Sounds, and Plugin Container for Firefox 2. Playback devices, there are 2 devices showing - Realtek HDMI Output (Properties, Not Plugged in, but enabled), and...

I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'Does the laptop have sound settings or control panels different from Windows?' When I go into Control Panel and Sound, I get the window showing tabs 'Playback' 'Recording' 'Sounds' and 'Communications'. As far as my Audacity settings are concerned, I am currently...

I have installed Audacity today, and now, when I plug in my headphones, sound still comes out of my laptop speakers, which didn't happen before. It is an Acer Aspire 5551 running Windows 7 Home Premium. I have tried changing various settings in Control Panel > Sound, but cannot sort this out. Any he...