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I've been looking for a free program to record my computer's audio output. I can't find one. I thought I could do it with Windows Sound Recorder, but for some reason, it refuses to record.

please help if you can.

I'd also like to know how, I've been dying to record some things off of an old movie lately but I haven't taken the time to figure it out...

audacity

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

you need to set the windows record mixer to record from either "what you hear" or wav, and turn off unused inputs so they don't add unnecessary noise. Particularly make sure the mic input is muted.

Is that under Preferences, Audio I/O?

cool windows sound recorder is horrible thats what i used up until today

i had to plug my speaker output into my mic or line in to record on sound recorder
i still have to do that with audacity

with Audacity you have to go to your windows sound settings (double click on the icon in your taskbar tray), click Options. Make sure Advanced Controls is checked off. Then click Properties. Make sure the device you're using to play sound through is selected at the top. Then click the Recording button, and select Wave Out Mix. That should make it so that whenever you start to record it is from whatever is coming out of your speakers at the time. Oh, and remember to turn you volume down! :wink: :!:

EDIT: I'm assuming you're on a PC. If not, sorry for the mistake!

rargh! it's still not working ) :
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Some older (or cheaper) sound cards do not support recording the combined audio output of the sound card. In this case, an option for "what you hear" or "wave out mix" in Recording properties in Volume Control isn't even available. You have to connect the line-out port to the line-in port, like what arsonstar mentioned.

Bloodshedder
Some older (or cheaper) sound cards do not support recording the combined audio output of the sound card. In this case, an option for "what you hear" or "wave out mix" in Recording properties in Volume Control isn't even available. You have to connect the line-out port to the line-in port, like what arsonstar mentioned.

haha funny that you mention that because my older computer's sound card will record digi output but my new computer won't. My old computer uses a Sound Blaster Live! card and my new HP Media Center uses a Realtek card built into the motherboard. Unfortunately my old computer doesn't have internet and probably never will since I'd need about 50 feet of Ethernet cable and a new router just to get onto my LAN...

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DONT NEED THIS PLUGINS l

you already got one that comes with WINDOWS

Go in Start > Programs > Accesories > Entertainment > Recorder !!!!

fuckfreesoundprosuck
DONT NEED THIS PLUGINS l

you already got one that comes with WINDOWS

Can you record longer than one minute now with windows recorder? I couldn't when I last used it a few years ago.

Halleck

fuckfreesoundprosuck
DONT NEED THIS PLUGINS l

you already got one that comes with WINDOWS

Windows recorder sucks. And Audacity is a standalone multitrack recording and editing program, not a plugin.

Can you record longer than one minute now with windows recorder? I couldn't when I last used it a few years ago.

when i first started with recording stuff (on windows 9 i found that if you hit record, stop, then record, you got another minute everytime you repeated it. funny, huh?

EDIT: i just tried it on XP and it seems that if you record for 15 seconds, press stop, and record again, it gives you 60 seconds more than you recorded for. so it would give you 75 seconds. maybe that's the way it was back then, too? i can't remember exactly...

with Audacity you have to go to your windows sound settings (double click on the icon in your taskbar tray), click Options. Make sure Advanced Controls is checked off. Then click Properties. Make sure the device you're using to play sound through is selected at the top. Then click the Recording button, and select Wave Out Mix. That should make it so that whenever you start to record it is from whatever is coming out of your speakers at the time. Oh, and remember to turn you volume down! Wink Exclamation

Can I do that with Mac? (MacIntel, which is a bit different to other Macs.) And does anybody know if Audacity is going to come out in Universal Binary?

yeah if you leave the slider/cursor whatever all the way to the left and record again you get another min i recorded 5 mins of silence and saved it so i didnt have to go through all the hassle every time
but yes sound recorder blows and i will continue to unplugg my spekers when i record something
because i dont seem to have those options in my computer
thanks anyway!

Thats interesting. before i got my sound module thing i could do it and my sound card before that didn't even have a name, it was just on-board sound and i had no trouble recording the stereo mix. This may sound dumb - but are you selecting 'Stereo Mix' in this drop down box:

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8589/untitled1qe4.gif

(Sorry - mine is blanked out because i make that selection on my audio interface!)

thanos

with Audacity you have to go to your windows sound settings (double click on the icon in your taskbar tray), click Options. Make sure Advanced Controls is checked off. Then click Properties. Make sure the device you're using to play sound through is selected at the top. Then click the Recording button, and select Wave Out Mix. That should make it so that whenever you start to record it is from whatever is coming out of your speakers at the time. Oh, and remember to turn you volume down! Wink Exclamation

Can I do that with Mac? (MacIntel, which is a bit different to other Macs.) And does anybody know if Audacity is going to come out in Universal Binary?

I'm not sure about a Mac, as I've never owned one. But I'm sure if you searched around the ol' intranet you'd find something... as far as audacity in Universal Binary, you might try to contact the fine people at the Audacity project.

Streety
Thats interesting. before i got my sound module thing i could do it and my sound card before that didn't even have a name, it was just on-board sound and i had no trouble recording the stereo mix. This may sound dumb - but are you selecting 'Stereo Mix' in this drop down box:

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8589/untitled1qe4.gif

(Sorry - mine is blanked out because i make that selection on my audio interface!)

That's what mine looks like
I think I just need to buy a new soundcard my computer that's hooked up to the internet.

why not transfer it from your old computer?

Well then I wouldn't have a soundcard in that computer...
and it's my studio computer so if I don't have sound (or good quality sound) then its useless.