Now this is slightly annoying, because audio and sound engineering is part of what I do for work, so I was fairly convinced I could solve this problem myself, but apparently not.
All the sound my computer makes is played over the mic and line-in inputs on my audio device, regardless of whether something is plugged into it or not.
Why is this? I wish I knew.
It makes skype and so on a real annoyance, unless I plug in the usb mixing board I use for small live gigs (which acts as a second audio device), and use that as skype's input device. I don't want to have to keep anything that cumbersome sitting around my PC.
' Wrote:Now this is slightly annoying, because audio and sound engineering is part of what I do for work, so I was fairly convinced I could solve this problem myself, but apparently not.
All the sound my computer makes is played over the mic and line-in inputs on my audio device, regardless of whether something is plugged into it or not.
Why is this? I wish I knew.
It makes skype and so on a real annoyance, unless I plug in the usb mixing board I use for small live gigs (which acts as a second audio device), and use that as skype's input device. I don't want to have to keep anything that cumbersome sitting around my PC.
If you're on Windows 7, can you do anything about it through the "Playback Devices" dialog available by right-clicking the audio icon in the taskbar?
You can change default audio devices and stuff there.
If that doesn't do it, does your sound card have a configuration utility? Some allow you to change how the output ports work...
' Wrote:If you're on Windows 7, can you do anything about it through the "Playback Devices" dialog available by right-clicking the audio icon in the taskbar?
A 64 bit version of XP.
I've spent a fair few hours going through all the windows audio settings, and been over Realtek's audio manager as well. There doesn't seem to be anything that would indicate this should be happening.
' Wrote:Now this is slightly annoying, because audio and sound engineering is part of what I do for work, so I was fairly convinced I could solve this problem myself, but apparently not.
All the sound my computer makes is played over the mic and line-in inputs on my audio device, regardless of whether something is plugged into it or not.
Why is this? I wish I knew.
Sounds like a Realtek driver misconfiguration. You can set up which ports have which in- or output devices attached to it. Your report is a bit unclear though. Is the line out to the speaker routed to the blue and pink jacks instead of the default green and black one?
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