Audio imported becomes mono

When I import a stereo audio file into GarageBand, GarageBand plays it in mono even though it shows two sound waves in the track. How do I get it to play back in stereo?

I'm not sure if this makes a difference but it might:
Did you just switch the input to Stereo *after* you dragged in your material and edited it or before? If you switched it to stereo after, the material may have already been converted into mono. You may need to start again with it set to stereo first if you want to bring the audio tracks into your project and maintain their stereoness.
(Or, if the problem is only with playback, are you going through a mixer with the left output panned to the left, and right output panned to the right? Sometimes unpanned outputs can make stereo sources sound mono)

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