Device Toolbar - Audacity Manual

# Device Toolbar

### From Audacity Manual

Device Toolbar provides an easy way to select the combination of interface host and sound device to be used for playback and recording, without having to open the Devices Preferences.

Devices Toolbar is not enabled by default. To enable it, click View > Toolbars > Device Toolbar.

### Playback Device

  Choose the hardware device in or attached to your computer that you want to use for playback.

### Recording Device

  Choose the hardware device in or attached to your computer that you want to use for recording.

Audacity must use the same interface host (for example, MME or DirectSound on Windows) to communicate with both the playback device and the recording device. Therefore if you change the host in either the playback or recording menu so that it differs from the host in the other menu, the host in that other menu will change to respect that.

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