No sound from Stereo Mix option/can't find Stereo Mix on PC

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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I have tried recording from an iPlayer radio programme on my laptop using the Stereo Mix input option from the dropdown list. When I do that, nothing comes through, even though recording levels are turned up. I recorded it using a lead from the microphone socket to line-in, but the quality was poor.

On my PC, running Windows 7, I cannot find any way of selecting the Stereo Mix option. I’ve tried right clicking the speakers icon on the Taskbar to find it under the recording tab, but no sign. Can anyone help with either of these probelms?

Thanks.

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Some computers aggressively prevent you from recording internal audio. That and the Mic-In and Line (or headphone)-Out are very different and you can’t plug one into the other. Or you can, but it doesn’t work very well.

Self recording is not one of the guaranteed services when you buy a computer like the other services are.

Sometimes, you need to add software to get internet recording to work.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html

Koz

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Thank you for your post. It seems that is my problem too I can’t find Stereo Mix.
Your link gives me a long list of things that don’t mean too much for me. One is in yellow “how to use Audacity html…”
I read under recording with P to prepare and R to record that I tried befor to no avail.
Could you tell me more about additional sofware that may help in this situation? Regards MM

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Use WASAPI instead … https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html#WASAPI

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Thank you Trebor and others.
I had a some trouble with WASAPI as I was getting nowhere with it . But I put the turorial link you gave me and put it on the right of my screen with Audacity on the Left.
I did not have any speakers showing up but had the headphone. (Only, perhaps, because I disabled them!) So selected headphone instead and it worked ok.
I also found that one can use with W10,11 “window +G” to launch “Game Bar” that does record any action on your screen. The problem with it was that I wanted Audio only and I could not edit these strange file in Audacity or Adobe Sounbooth. To be able to do it I had to find the ‘Capture folder’ and then save these files as MP3 or WAV (for me) Then I was able to edit them. But now I can ‘Export’ these files directly in those format.
PS: I hope it’s ok to mention other software in that forum…
But thank you again :slight_smile: