Audacity Forum

... checked all the connections and they are solid. My settings are: What U Hear : Microphone; Edit/Preferences: Audio ID: Sound Blaster and mono, ... Microphone" - in Audacity's Mixer Toolbar Selector? Or are you on Vista, where you select your input device in Audio I/O Preferences > Recording ...

Are we all by any chance on Vista? Vista, as I am gathering, doesn't provide "Stereo Mix" or "What You Hear" to anybody.

Koz

Thanks for the detailed explanation, very useful. So is it creative's vista 64 drivers for the x-fi that are causing wave not to be visible? I don't have a wave option in ...

Audacity uses your computers sound system drivers. Some drivers allow Audacity to control them, but an increasing number do not, in which case you must use the Windows interface (Windows Control Panel / Windows Mixer), or ...

Ah, that explains the greyed-out input selector. So is the fact there's no wave option in the Audio I/O tab solely down to the X-fi drivers? With XP there was a wave option, but what u hear seems to do what I want. When I had the X-fi installed ...

I have used Audacity in the past, but recently purchased a Dell Laptop Inspiron 1525 with a Sigma Tel sound driver (w/Windows Vista). When recording streaming audio, I am picking up external sound sources (i.e. televison sounds, talking, etc.). It would appear that my computer is setup ...

... or "What You Hear." In either case, it routes the speaker feed back into Audacity. That process may have been abbreviated in Vista because it can cause troubles for casual users. http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#Using_the_Control_Panel Koz

... However, it appears that the card in the Dell machines is some sort of 'joint venture' between Dell and Creative, and doesn't include the 'What U Hear' drivers. Some people suggest buying the retail card to get the drivers since (supposedly) the drivers downloaded from the Creative site will ...

... a common problem. This is the common suggestion to solve the problem: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/01/15/how-to-enable-wave-out-recording-in-vista/ As you can see from other comments, however, it just does not work for some people. So chances are I am going to get a new card anyway in hopes ...

... sound card doesn't have "Stereo Mix" -- a common problem with Vista computers, I'm discovering -- I don't have this mixer. I wonder if ... as asking if I could record a "Sound Mix" and "What U Hear," which is not what I was asking. I just gave both names as those ...