Windows 10: Computer thinks earbud speakers are a microphone, ignoring the actual microphone

Hello, I have been trying to connect my earbuds to my computer as a microphone, however, even though the earbuds I have tried to connect and I have tried quite a few have a microphone, windows will not detect the microphone part as the microphone, instead it will the detect the speaker part.


Like, it takes each earbud as a microphone. It sounds like some very low stereo microphone, and only picks up sound when I put right next to my mouth.

At the same time, when I speak into the actual microphone, the audio is not detected at all.


It works fine on my phone, it reads the microphone as a microphone and the earbuds as earbuds.

But my computer seems... severely confused.


I have tried several different earbuds, all to the same result.

I didn't even know it was possible to pickup sound from the speakers, but it isn't loud enough to be usable, unfortunatly.


I am sorry if this wasn't very clear, this situation is kinda odd and I'm not very good at explaining myself.

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thanks