Youtube

[Ethan]

I want to record audio from Youtube. But whenever I open Audacity I can't hear anything from Youtube even after I've closed audacity. Can anyone help with this?

[kozikowski]

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... e_computer

Do you use Skype? Skype can mess up sound pathways whether or not Audacity is there.

Koz

[steve]

Or do you use a USB audio device, such as a USB turntable?

[Ethan]

The answer to both of those questions is no.

[steve]

Well that's the two quick 'n' easy possibilities out of the way, now we'll have to start digging.

You need to start this off - what sort of computer, what operating system, which exact version of Audacity, what sort of headphones/speakers....
Don't spare the detail, too often it takes half a dozen posts before some key bit of information comes out - a thorough description at the start can save a great deal of time (too much information is better than not enough).

[Ethan]

Intel Premium 4
Windows XP SP3
Audacity 1.3
Altec Speakers as shown in this image: http://www.boyntontech.net/images/Altec ... $35.99.jpg

MP3 files stored on my computer work fine. But I can't hear anything stored on the internet.

[steve]

OK, I've got my Intel Premium 4 and Windows XP SP3

Not sure exactly which version of Audacity to go for I'll try 1.3.12

Altec Speakers - ok, I plug these into my laptop? with a little round mini-jack plug?

Am I right so far?
What do I need to do to make it go wrong?

Open my web browser, start playing something on YouTube, then open Audacity and the YouTube video freezes? Is that what's happening?

[Ethan]

OK, I've got my Intel Premium 4 and Windows XP SP3

Not sure exactly which version of Audacity to go for I'll try 1.3.12

Altec Speakers - ok, I plug these into my laptop? with a little round mini-jack plug?

Am I right so far?
What do I need to do to make it go wrong?

Open my web browser, start playing something on YouTube, then open Audacity and the YouTube video freezes? Is that what's happening?

Sorry I couldn't find this thread, but now I've bookmarked it. No, Youtube doesn't freeze. If there's a video, I can see it find. I just can't hear anything from it and audacity just records the same blankness that I hear.

[kozikowski]

Oh, Audacity is not recording the YouTube sound.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... e_computer

The Audacity red recording meters should be bouncing during the recording. No meters, no recording.

Koz

[kozikowski]

<<<I can not record audio from youtube>>>

We warn people not to post piggy-back to another post.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... e_computer

Koz