Audacity Forum

click on:
Windows START button > (Settings) > Control Panel > Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices > Sounds and Audio devices

Click on the "Audio" tab.

What do you have set as the "Sound Recording - default device" ?

Stevethefiddle:

What do you have set as the "Sound Recording - default device" ?

Answer: Realtek HD Audio input

click on:
Windows START button > (Settings) > Control Panel > Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices > Sounds and Audio devices

On the screen that pops up (Sounds and Audio Device Properties), click on the "Volume" button in the "Sound Recording section. This will make the Recording Mixer (Recording Control) pop up.

Then click on "Options" (menu item at the top) and select "Properties".

At the bottom of this window you will see a list of recording inputs (it says "Show the following volume controls").

1) What options are available?
2) Which options are selected (ticked)?

The following items are mentheoned:

Recording
CD volume
Microphone volume
Volume of Line
Stereo Mix

and All are selected (ticked).

In the pop-up of Recording / Volume only
the 'Recording volume is green and the others are grey !

Kwouk wrote:In the pop-up of Recording / Volume only
the 'Recording volume is green and the others are grey !

I'm not sure what you mean.
Can you post a screenshot (screen capture) of the window?

(to put the picture file into your forum post, use the "Upload attachment" tab below the message window)

Steve
Please see attachment
most left is green and the others are grey.
Hope you can see and read it
Thanks

Well I don't speak Dutch, but I can read it well enough to see that we can't set "Stereo-mix" from here.

Either in the "Taskbar Notification Area" (near the "Time/Date") or in the Control Panel you should be able to access the RealTek mixer.
It does a similar job to the recording mixer that we have been looking at, but it is laid out differently and is probably green/blue. (there may be a brown loudspeaker icon in the Taskbar Notification area that gives access to it).

You are looking for something similar to this:

Steve,
see attachment please.
In the former attachment you have in the left under corner a mechanic tool.
If you point this you get "Mixer Tool Bar" and if you click on this you will get the new attachment hereby.
As you can see I ticket (left under) "Enable recording multi streaming."

And now my Audacity seems to work again.

I will try it again to be sure, but I think I can record radio and music again.
Thanks a lot for your time and patience

Kwouk wrote:In the former attachment you have in the left under corner a mechanic tool.
If you point this you get "Mixer Tool Bar" and if you click on this you will get the new attachment hereby.
As you can see I ticket (left under) "Enable recording multi streaming."

The "mechanic tool" (spanner) was the very next step
Congratulations and have fun recording.