Recommend me sound recording software please...

peteruk · 21 Jul 2006 at 20:08

Hey all,

Basically, I want to record the same sound that I hear out of my speakers (ie. I want to save the data that's being sent to them for later playing) and then be able to save it as an MP3. Now I have an M-audio Audiophile 2496 (I think that's the number) and Goldwave too, but I can't seem to get it to do that (yeah, it's very possible I have it set up wrong

).

Any suggestions much appreciated.

jbloggs · 21 Jul 2006 at 22:08

What about Audacity

luminous · 24 Jul 2006 at 00:53

To record anything that you hear:
Start playing a song in say winamp:
Open up goldwave,go into `options` or `preferences`(wherever)
set recording device to `Mixer in delta ap1`
press record in goldwave (which should monitor it,not record straight away)
if you see mixer record in level dancing,you`re in business.

It`ll record in wav format,once you have it recorded in then you can encode it to mp3(if goldwave has that option),or you could use `audiograbber free`,great app for ripping and encoding mp3s from wav.Just remember to grab the lame encoder from the site and pop it into same directory as ag.

freddib · 25 Jul 2006 at 19:47

just set your "recording" volume control to "what you hear"
and any recorder program should be ok ... did you get one with you sound card software ?
maybe you have a setting for full duplex ? on off ?(record and play)
i would have thought your card is capable though

luminous · 25 Jul 2006 at 23:46

The phile has its own mixer in taskbar so windows mixer isn`t there,and theres no option in philes mixer for `what u hear` anyway,you have to set `mixer in` in whatever app you are using to record.
My old soundcard worked the other way,must be the philes way of doing things.
You get it working alright peter?