Audacity Forum

If you move up to Win7, you may find yourself using special software instead of the missing Stereo-Mix. You're right. I tried Audacity on my Windows 7 PC at work and could not get the Stereo-Mix option. I've used Replay Media Catcher to record audio before I got the driver issue resolved. It worked...

it shows that Microsoft did not deliberately disable this feature. For you this time. If you move up to Win7, you may find yourself using special software instead of the missing Stereo-Mix. Recording internal sounds and music gets in the way of business communication and conferencing and that's wha...

Problem solved. A driver update (Conexant High-Definition Audio) from HP fixed the problem. I never thought of checking that. Automatic HP updates were disabled because system performance was occasionally slow as a glacier after waking up. Likewise for Windows updates, but at least those were manual...

... Self-Recording or recording from Stereo-Mix, WAV-Out or What-U-Hear isn't well supported in Win7 or Vista -- certainly not like it was under Windows XP. If you click on the Hardware toolbar and ...

Light and Sound wrote:Does Linux use its own drivers for the sound cards?

Sound card driver support is usually provided by ALSA.

Steve, That was some reply. Thanks. At the last job I used Ubuntu 11.4. I, too, did not care much for Unity, so I disabled it and stuck with the Gnome desktop. Good idea about virtualbox. I am currently running Ubuntu 11.10 under it, mainly for xephem . Works like a champ. Does Linux use its own dri...

The only reason I mention Ubuntu is because I have some familiarity with it from using in my last job. Do you know which version of Ubuntu you used? Ubuntu has gone through some pretty radical changes since version 10.x Is there a preferred (for Audacity use) distro? And is there a suitable dual-bo...

Do you have a reason for specifying "Ubuntu" rather than any other Linux distribution? In my experience more recent versions of Ubuntu are becoming increasingly sluggish and difficult to customise. The only reason I mention Ubuntu is because I have some familiarity with it from using in m...

Recording sounds playing on the computer is possible on Linux, in fact there are several ways to do it on Linux. One method is to use "PulseAudio". There is a detailed description for Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10 here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Stereo_mix_with_Ubuntu_10 Do you have a reaso...

Yes, "What U hear" is an option using the SoundBlaster, which I do not have on the Vista PC. So "What U hear" is probably not the name that I selected from the menu, but certainly I ...