I am running a SigmaTel audio card, and cant choose inputs

[jorrus]

Hi.

I have been using Audacity on 3 of my machines now for at least two years. I just got a new dell 9200 Dimension, running XP service pack 2, and immeadiately put Audacity on it! I cant afford a decent audio card, so I am stuck with my SigmaTel one. I used to record tunes from "band in a box", and other various audio programs that couldnt let me save my music, straight from my PC. I used the stereo mix tool, and it worked a treat!!!

Now, with my new 'Dimension, I cant choose Stereo Mix from the input drop-down tab. I wanted to ask if anyone out there knew of a driver for my SigmaTel card that will let me Stereo Mix record again. Or am I going to have to face facts and get a new sound card?

I would greatly appreciate any help with this matter.

Jorrus, a fellow audacity user.

[Teshake]

Hi jorrus
I've been having the same problem but this may be of interest :
I use a simple Griffin imac interface to connect my audio source to my laptop. If I connect this before running audacity
I find no choices for input/stereo mix in the mixer toolbar. If I run audacity first the choices are there and they remain in the toolbar after I have connected everything up. It works but as I am pretty new to sound editing/digital recording I have no idea why!! If anyone can explain this to me I'd be very grateful.
Hope this is helpful to you
Best Wishes Teshake

[richardash1981]

@jorrus: Try upgrading to the latest drivers you can find on the web:
http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index. ... ce_Drivers
however I don't hold out a lot of hope - a lot of people seem to find that the hardware just isn't there in these chips. All you can do is rig up a hardware loop-back to the line input and record from there:
http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=reco ... =streaming

@Teshake: Your question is unrelated, please don't cross-post. The reason you see different lists of inputs is because you have audacity set to record from "Microsoft Sound Mapper" rather than explicitly choosing a sound device on the Audio I/O tab of the audacity preferences. The "Microsoft Sound Mapper" automatically flicks between sound devices depending on what it thinks you might want to use. When it picks on your sound card you get a list of it's inputs, and when it picks on the iMic you get no list because the iMic only has one input.

[charlie666]

I downloaded this from lg usa and installed on my dell e510 (the larger 97mb driver gave me line in and stereo mix options), it has worked on my friends xps - good luck

http://us.lgservice.com/index_b2c.jsp

[bugmenot]

I have sigmatel on my dell laptop and had the same problem. I followed the following steps and they worked for my laptop, so I will pass them on to you:

Go into the registry, specifically under HKEY Local Machine-->System-->ControlSet001-->Control-->Class-->{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Scroll down till you see something resembling a sigmatel entry.
Go into settings/filter/rear, and you'll see that StereoMix has a 0 for its value (that means disabled). Try putting a 1 and restarting and see if that enables stereo mix...

Again, I'm not sure if it will work with your desktop card but give it a shot.