Audacity Forum

My apologies for the confusion, but now I solved it:
for recording online streaming via cable, stereo mix must be enabled, like Steve etall mentioned,
but the microphone has to be enabled, too.

For recording voice through a headset's mic the stereo mix has to be disabled and the mic enabled.

Unfortunately my above mentioned solution solved the problem for not being able to record on Audacity some online streaming using a cable with headset etc.

But now Audacity stops recording when I talk into the headset's microphone

??

Just wanted to give everyone the answer and solution that I now found out myself.

By right clicking on the volume in the task bar, and choosing recording devices ,
and disableing the inbuild microphone does the trick.

Thanks Steve. But then now on Win 7, as I can only record in Audacity when clicking record and speak into the microphone, it makes Audacity not suitable for my needs any longer at all. (I do wonder what it's used for then by other people though.) Anyway, as I am now without a recording software, wou...

Thanks kozikowski, But I am using 1.3 on the newer computer, where it's not working. ?? So are you saying, that basically one cannot get audacity to work / one cannot use audacity with version 1.3? Thanks again for clarifying. P.S.Please note that I only mentioned Skype as an example, I haven't test...

Audacity worked perfectly on my XP computer, recording fine and all. Now on my Win7 laptop I cannot get it to record. Also tried to run it compatibility mode for XP but it made no difference. And I am not talking about recording by talking into the inbuild microphone, that works. But I am referring ...