Apple earbuds (wired, headphone jack) stopped working

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carlfriedberg
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Apple earbuds (wired, headphone jack) stopped working

Post by carlfriedberg » Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:01 pm

Audacity 2.4.2 just downloaded. Yesterday, I was able to use my earbuds to record a short (5 second) voicemail greeting.

Today, I can no longer access the external mic. It shows on the SOUND control panel applet, and the graph there shows activity when I speak. But audacity only shows the onboard mic, and I can hear the difference, the sound is much worse. Any ideas? Thanks, Carl
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Re: Apple earbuds (wired, headphone jack) stopped working

Post by kozikowski » Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:02 pm

I can hear the difference, the sound is much worse
There's another way to do this, too. Gently scratch each one.

https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/cli ... hTest2.mp3

Classic earbuds have the microphone in that little fat section in the cable with the volume control rocker. My Air has its microphones just left of the left-hand shift key.

You can cause a microphone to vanish if you're set up to record Stereo and the microphone is Mono, or reverse.

Also see: Audacity > Preferences > Devices > Recording.

There can be issues with Catalina, too, but start there.

Koz
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