HEADPHONES NOT IN PLAYBACK DEVICES HOW TO

You can select (click) on any available device, and then choose Set Default. In the example above the default playback sound deviceВ is the PC speakers connected to the High Definition audio device. Your current default device will be indicated by a green check mark.

You can also see which devices are actually available (as you can see in this Windows 7 screenshot, some devices are not plugged in). Each system is different, so what you see will reflect that. When you click on the Playback tab, a window will pop up that shows you the devices available on your system. Select the Playback devicesВ to open the Sound Control Panel. You'll see a menu that offers several choices: Open Volume Mixer, Playback devices, Recording devices, S ounds and Volume Control options. Find the icon for Sound in the notification area (lower right corner of your screen) and right-click or press and hold it. The simplest and most direct way to change your playback device works the same way in Windows 7 and Windows 8.x. Now to change it to beВ the Windows default playback and recording device. Physically connecting your headset to the PC running SmartSDR for Windows is the first step.

HEADPHONES NOT IN PLAYBACK DEVICES HOW TO

How To Change The Default Playback (speakers) Device

However there are cases when you may need toВ manually set the appropriate sound device as the default and the procedure below will explain how to accomplishВ that task. For example, your speakers will be deactivated for as long as you have your USB headset plugged in. In general, on Win7 and Win 8.x PCs, when plugging a headset into an existing sound card or USB based audio device into a PC, Windows will automatically designateВ the newly inserted device as the default sound device, and after a short time will activate it, making LAN Remote a 'plug-n-play' feature. The SmartSDR LAN Remote feature uses the Windows default Playback (speaker / headphones) and Recording (microphone) audio devices.

Headphones not in playback devices