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Have a look at this page from the Audacity manual.

Looking at your screen capture, I can see that you’re trying to record streaming audio through your microphone, which might not even be plugged into your laptop! No wonder nothing gets recorded! Please, follow instructions as shown on this page , and make sure you select either WASAPI or "Stereo Mix...

Here is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_fidelity : Low fidelity or lo fi (adjectival form "low-fidelity" or "lo-fi") is a type of sound recording which contains technical flaws that make the recording sound different compared with the live sound being recorded, such as distortion, hum, backgr...

You could simply play the CD on your PC and record it in Audacity through WASAPI, WM-KS, or whatever device host works on your system and in Audacity. I followed this method to convert all my CDs to FLAC files in Audacity. After that, I copied the FLAC files onto a USB key. If you don’t want the (lo...

Hi Gale, You are right regarding Foobar2000: it uses something else than WASAPI when it can play a different audio concurrently with the Web browser. Out of sheer curiosity, I have downloaded and installed a Foobar2000 “component” adding support for WASAPI output in Foobar ( WASAPI output support )....

I am running Windows 8.1, where things seem to be different from other (previous) Windows systems. First, I don’t have two check boxes in the Advanced settings of the Windows Sound applet. I only have one check box for “Stereo Mix”, i.e. “Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device”....

Hi Gale, I meant the 44100 Hz limitation. This is why I prefer to use WDM-KS which I set at 96000Hz. Now if I have 96000 Hz in the Windows Sound Applet, and 96000 Hz as the Audacity Default Rate, and I record using WASAPI, the “Actual Rate” in Audacity is also 96000 Hz (bottom right of the Audacity ...

You are right. There is interesting information on this subject at Check Bit Rate of Streaming Audio and What does the bit depth and sample rate refer to . Also audio samples at different bit rates are available from PowerStream Audio Samples and High Definition Audio Test Files . It seems 160 kbps ...

Hi Doug, Information can be found on the following pages, but they are unclear what are the sample rate limitation of WASAPI. WASAPI About WASAPI What's up with WASAPI? Streaming audio can have high sample rates. Here is what is offered at http://www.sky.fm: Our free service streams: MP3: 96 kbits/s...

Hi, I am still running Audacity 2.0.4. I thought that WASAPI was limited to 44000Hz, but I just recorded streaming music through WASAPI with 96000Hz as the Project rate, and saved it to FLAC without any apparent problem. Was the WASAPI limitation linked to the audio drivers (I just updated my Realte...