The Ghostly Glowing Holy Grail of Podcasting.
I’m not sure where to go with this. Usually, we can hand you a laundry list of ‘do this’ and ‘buy that’, and even if the list is completely out of the question, we can demonstrate that the process can be made to work. This is one task that doesn’t lend itself to that kind of simplicity.
It’s entirely possible you got one to work. People have. This guy for example, just plugged everything up, turned it on and started cranking out podcasts. Two directions, live conversations, bi-directional music, etc. etc. He can’t explain what’s magic about his setup, but most people can’t get similar ones to work.
http://reellife.podomatic.com/
I got close once with two computers and a mixer.
Skype Processes and Management on one, Music Playback and Audacity Recording on the other. Even that was missing one of the directions of music.
“Koz, if you’re playing music, I can’t hear it.”
!@#$%^
There is another affliction associated with this process. Once somebody gets one to work, they vanish and we never see them again.
You might look through his forum postings and see if anything pops out at you.
Also by now, somebody may have a Podcasting Package that takes care of all this in one swoop.
There was another podcast that did multiple microphones and music and did it very well, but they won’t get back to you how they did it. I need to look that one up. The link isn’t on this machine.
Here’s Chase’s Podcast.
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/record-mic-and-computer-sound-simultaneously/28990/3
Koz