My old laptop is dead and I’m using a loaned Beats Audio HP laptop (do not recommend). Anyways, plugged headphones have this bizarre quirk where they work. In the sense that the audio gets played through the headphones.
Yet it does not show up in the audio playback options, so when I try to record a song, it also records the beat, and I cannot get that to stop, so I can’t make music anymore basically.
How can I fix this?
I don’t really understand your problem… please describe in more detail. What device is your music coming from? How is this device connected to your computer?
What is “this bizarre quirk where they work”?
And: all devices either need to be connected and turned on before Audacity is started. If not, you need to use the “re-scan audio devices” from the Audio Setup button or the Transport menu.
I’m recording my music through a USB microphone. It’s connected through a USB port.
My headphones are wired and connected through an audio jack. They play sound correctly, so they’re not broken. Yet Audacity, when you go to “Preferences” and go to “Playback Devices”, does not list the headphones as an option. So when I record vocals to one track, audio in the other tracks, like the beat, gets picked up in the recording too, when it shouldn’t.
The headphones are plugged in before Audacity starts.
EDIT: Wired, not wireless. My bad.
Sounds like a driver or settings issue. Try updating the audio drivers, then check the playback devices in Windows to make sure your headphones are set as default.
The jack that you are plugging the headphones into is connected to the Realtek sound card, so by selecting the Realtek device, you are selecting the headphones.
For some reason, the sound card is not detecting that the headphone jack has something plugged into it, which might be a driver problem, or some Windows sound device setting.
Maybe. I already uninstalled my audio driver but this is still happening.
I just noticed this though; my headphones, despite working, don’t show up in Windows Settings either. But they do get acknowledged in that shitty Beat Audio program that’s hardbaked on the laptop (Mic in at front panel back in the video below)
So I figure this must be part of the problem. (And before anyone asks, I have not been able to remove Beats Audio, it seems to just be part of the computer)
i just noticed the headphone shows up in the sound control panel under 'Mic in at front panel" too.
Laptops often have a dual purpose 3.5 mm jack plug socket and it seems possible that your plug is not suitably connected for output rather than input. This could simply be because its not fully inserted. Otherwise it is possible that you need a plug which has connection for both output and input or an adaptor to split the two functions. For example
https://ebay.us/m/Pl5T42
Then there is also the problem of TRS and TRRS connectors. The computer may be expecting a connector different from the one being used.
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