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Headphones are simple in terms of hardware; you connect the pin into the jack, and things just work. You should be able to hear audio from your system, and if your headphones have a mic, you will be able to use it with a chat app or any other app …

The volume keys on your keyboard are for the speakers on your PC. In fact, all the volume controls that are easy to access on your system are for your speakers. The same goes for the mute button. A PC doesn’t just have an audio output device i.e., speakers, it …

League of Legends is one of the most popular MOBA games played today. Installing the game is simple enough. It takes time to learn the ropes, figure out the characters you want to play, the skills that you should level up, and how to battle in the arena. The game …

Sound devices work out of the box. You might need a driver for some devices to work but Windows 10 will install them automatically so that you won’t hear anything other than the chime that indicates new hardware has been found. This goes for devices that you plug into the …

Recording audio is simple. Most smartphones can record good, clear audio using just their built-in mics and a smartphone is a reasonably good, portable device to use for outdoor recording. It doesn’t have noisy fans running, and the mic will try and filter out as much noise as it can …

If you’re playing music on your Windows 10 PC, regardless of which app you’re playing it in, it will continue to play even after your system is locked. It will even prevent the system from going to sleep. This holds true for most apps with few exceptions e.g. Netflix will …

Audio from a video can be extracted fairly easily. All you need to do is convert the file to an audio format. You can convert it to a lossless or lossy format and it’s easy to do whether you want to use a desktop app or a web app for …

File compression is used mostly for images in an attempt to reduce their size. Images are used in all sorts of ways; websites, documents, presentations, and the more they are, the heavier the document or presentation will be which is why they’re normally compressed. Images aren’t the only file type …

Routing audio on Windows 10 isn’t easy and often the trickiest thing in the mix is the audio/sound driver that is installed. Once you have the drivers sorted out, you need to figure out how to route audio and get apps to listen to a device. Here’s how you can …

A video can have multiple audio tracks. We’ve discussed how you can extract an audio track from a video if it has multiple audio tracks. The process is simple and the app for the job is free. That said, sometimes you need to add multiple audio tracks to a video …