Can't play back audio through my headphones

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Can't play back audio through my headphones

Post by brimtown » Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:00 am

This seems to be a new problem with 1.3beta, I never had this problem before. For some reason, I can't get audio to play through my headphones, it only plays through my computer speakers. I have my headphones plugged in properly, I can play audio from other sources (Windows Media Player, YouTube, etc), so I'm not sure what the problem is.

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Re: Can't play back audio through my headphones

Post by brimtown » Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:17 am

I think I figured it out...

Went to Audacity>Preferences, and under 'Devices' changed the 'Playback' device to "Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output". At least it seems to be doing the trick, not sure why this wouldn't be a default setting. As I said before, I never used to have a problem, I used to just plug in my headphones and listen.

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