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The audio jack works fine, but in Audacity, I plug in my headphones, but the sound still goes through the speakers. I've searched for a solution, not finding one

How do I solve this so that when I listen to audacity, I can listen through my headphones?

That sounds like a hardware problem, or maybe a driver problem. If it's a new computer maybe you can return it or get it repaired.

I assume this is a laptop?

The audio jack works fine,

What does that mean?

Are your headphones regular analog headphones with a 3.5mm phone jack, or are they USB?

I had a similar problem on my Windows 10 PC. I solved it through free open source “AudioSwitch” (https://github.com/sirWest/AudioSwitch), which allows you to “switch between default audio input or output + change volume”.

heanner wrote:The audio jack works fine, but in Audacity, I plug in my headphones, but the sound still goes through the speakers. I've searched for a solution, not finding one

How do I solve this so that when I listen to audacity, I can listen through my headphones?

If when you plug in the headphones you hear sound in the speakers and headphones, this could be a setting in your sound card. Hold Windows key down, press X and choose "Control Panel" then look under "Hardware and Sound" for your sound card's control panel.


Gale

DVDdoug wrote:That sounds like a hardware problem, or maybe a driver problem. If it's a new computer maybe you can return it or get it repaired.

I assume this is a laptop?

The audio jack works fine,

What does that mean?

Are your headphones regular analog headphones with a 3.5mm phone jack, or are they USB?

It's a Surface 4.

Gale Andrews wrote:

heanner wrote:The audio jack works fine, but in Audacity, I plug in my headphones, but the sound still goes through the speakers. I've searched for a solution, not finding one

How do I solve this so that when I listen to audacity, I can listen through my headphones?

If when you plug in the headphones you hear sound in the speakers and headphones, this could be a setting in your sound card. Hold Windows key down, press X and choose "Control Panel" then look under "Hardware and Sound" for your sound card's control panel.


Gale

It doesn't appear to be. If I listen to other programs or audio, sounds go to the earphones. But not with audacity. According to the settings, the jack is working properly.

Robert2 wrote:I had a similar problem on my Windows 10 PC. I solved it through free open source “AudioSwitch” (https://github.com/sirWest/AudioSwitch), which allows you to “switch between default audio input or output + change volume”.

I'm loathe to download this; what machine do you have?

heanner wrote:I'm loathe to download this

I don't think you should need additional software in order to select the audio output.
See: https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us ... =undefined

You don’t need it, but setting and resetting the default audio output in Windows 10 as I had to do was hell. It was convoluted and cumbersome. It involved plenty of clicks. It had to be repeated over and over again. With “AudioSwitch” (https://github.com/sirWest/AudioSwitch), it only takes 2 clicks to switch between speakers and headphones, and back if necessary. AudioSwitch is a safe harmless application. If it does not work or does not suit your needs, you can easily uninstall it. It is running fine in Windows 10 x64.

Robert2 wrote:setting and resetting the default audio output in Windows 10 as I had to do was hell. It was convoluted and cumbersome. It involved plenty of clicks.

To be fair, the Anniversary Edition of Windows 10 lets you left-click the speaker icon then choose the playback device from a dropdown menu.

Gale