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My laptop's only audio out jack is a combined headphone/mic jack. Without using a USB mike or recording interface, is there a way that I can listen to existing tracks while recording a new one?

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My laptop's only audio out...

What laptop? Exactly. Model number?

Koz

HP dm1z running Windows 7.

I also have a similar situation on an Aspire AO255 running Win7 Starter and RealTek HD driver. On that one, phones and mic both use the same jack even though there are two jacks. I think it is a driver issue, but it has the latest driver.

Thanks

flavius wrote:My laptop's only audio out jack is a combined headphone/mic jack. Without using a USB mike or recording interface, is there a way that I can listen to existing tracks while recording a new one?

I'd go for "No" unless you use headphones to listen and use the internal microphone for recording (which will probably be very poor sound quality)

A combined headphone and microphone jack? How is that even possible? This is the first I have ever heard of that. How would that even function with Audacity? (Im not much of a laptop guy...)

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