[TheBluestLotus]

Hi. Didn't put this in Hardware b/c my hardware works perfectly. If it needs
to be moved, though, please do.

I'm a transcriber. I've noticed that with some international audio, sound
only plays out of my LEFT headphone when headphones are plugged
directly into my laptop. I know without question that there is nothing at all
wrong with either the laptop or headphones. 90% of files play through both
headphones, as expected.

When I plug my headphones into the "left" output jack in my USB audio
interface (I use it for home recording), it will spit the audio out to both
headphones. But if I go directly into the computer (or use the
"headphones" jack on the audio interface, actually), I only get sound on
the left side.

Someone else suggested that this is b/c the creator of the audio recorded
it in stereo instead of mono. Okay... but what I need to know is how to
make it so I can plug headphones directly into my laptop's headphone jack
and hear the audio on BOTH sides. (I'd rather not use the audio interface
to do that because I need the USB jack it's occupying for my foot pedal
and mouse!)

Thanks for any suggestions you can offer, as to switching either the audio
to (I guess...?) stereo (if that's the problem), or another way of getting it
to play out of both earphones when they're directly connected to the
computer.

:~)

~ Blue

[DerekC]

Welcome to TSG, blue.

Originally Posted by TheBluestLotus

Someone else suggested that this is b/c the creator of the audio recorded it in stereo instead of mono.

The person who suggested this is quite correct. Unfortuantely, since the files were saved as mono, the only thing you can really do to solve the problem would be to edit the sound files using a program like Audacity.

Below is a link to show how to change the files from Mono to Stereo using Audacity.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2131095_conv...no-stereo.html

[TheBluestLotus]

Thanks so very much, Derek. I'm getting some new earbud earphones actually, but want to know--relevant to that purchase and the existing studio monitor / reference headphones that I have--does it matter that the headphones are stereo headphones?

Meaning, does that info affect anything you've told me to do to resolve the problem?

Again, many thanks.

~ B

[DerekC]

Nope, that info doesn't affect anything. The resolution would still be the same.