"Record what you hear"

Greenlizard0 · 14 Sep 2006 at 01:34

I need a freeware program that does this. With a simply start and stop function, and an easy way to find out where on earth your files are.

Pho · 14 Sep 2006 at 01:39

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Akira · 14 Sep 2006 at 01:39

You on about voice comms on MSN or Ventrilo or Teamspeak or your mobile or game sounds or what?

Greenlizard0 · 14 Sep 2006 at 01:47

I'm on about "what I hear". Basically what ever is passed through my sound card.

Sorry dudes, wrong forum

Saberu · 14 Sep 2006 at 01:48

Plug your line out to your record in on your sound card and you can do it with any recording software even the Windows one. It's common sense really

Theres probably even a way to do it in Windows but i've never tried.

Pho · 14 Sep 2006 at 01:55

Use Audacity (posted above) and set the source to 'Stereo Mix' it will record whatever your PC plays.

Greenlizard0 · 14 Sep 2006 at 01:56

the old creative software had a little recorder where you could it with that. I have the Fata1ty card, and it's record while nice looking lack's that function. What a ********!!

Sirrel Squirrel · 14 Sep 2006 at 02:02

Get audacity as said before, does the job fine

Greenlizard0 · 14 Sep 2006 at 02:03

Gotta say I'm struggling here - I'm pressing the record button - and then stop - but the files only save as the program's own format - which doesn't even play music back?

Pho · 14 Sep 2006 at 02:08

greenlizard0 said:
Gotta say I'm struggling here - I'm pressing the record button - and then stop - but the files only save as the program's own format - which doesn't even play music back?

Download: http://download.riverpast.com/download/lame3.96.1.zip extract lame_enc.dll to somewhere, i.e. c:\Program Files\Audacity .

Now, open Audacity go to edit>preferences then 'File Formats' at the top. Under 'MP3 Export Setup' choose 'Find Library' and open the lame_enc.dll you just extracted. Click OK when done (you can also set the bit rate of the exported file here too).

Now you can choose File > Export as MP3.

nikebee · 14 Sep 2006 at 02:10

greenlizard0 said:
Gotta say I'm struggling here - I'm pressing the record button - and then stop - but the files only save as the program's own format - which doesn't even play music back?

iirc to get Audacity to export to something like mp3 you need to download a lame enc.dll

have a google for it

edit: nevermind post above gives a link to the download

Pho said:
Download: http://download.riverpast.com/download/lame3.96.1.zip extract lame_enc.dll to somewhere, i.e. c:\Program Files\Audacity .

Van Hellseek · 14 Sep 2006 at 02:52

by coincidence i was trying to do something similar this afternoon, with little success, but thanks to this thread i just achieved my goal within ten minutes.

cheers for the tips! :cool:

MoNkeE · 14 Sep 2006 at 08:07

An even better way would have been by going into Control Panel > Volume Control > Options > Properties > Recording > OK. Then select Stereo Mix and record whatever you want. Just make sure you select Microphone again at the end

-RaZ

Chronos-X · 14 Sep 2006 at 08:56

MoNkeE said:
An even better way would have been by going into Control Panel > Volume Control > Options > Properties > Recording > OK. Then select Stereo Mix and record whatever you want. Just make sure you select Microphone again at the end

-RaZ

Indeed. You can use this method to record a perfect copy of "what you hear" with any recording program, without cables or fuss. Set it to microphone at the end if you truely do use a microphone, not as part of the process

Van Hellseek · 14 Sep 2006 at 11:56

Chronos-X said:
without cables or fuss.

i didn't use cables, i captured from the wave instead of line in. no fuss at all just a matter of clicking record and then stop.

benjo · 14 Sep 2006 at 12:05

Just change the record settings in windows to "what you hear", then just use windows built in voice recorder?