Recording problem I cannot figure

[mjwman]

I have a new laptop with the same Realtek sound card as my PC
As far as I can see all is set up as per the PC and as per all the advice on this forum.
Stereo Mix enabled in sound card and Audacity etc but still no recording.
I have sweated over this for hours. Must be something easy.
Anybody know what I am missing here please?

[trishya]

what are you trying to record? live stream or external? can you hear what you are trying to record? does audacity record blank/ flat line?

i am new here as of today, but know many basics and can maybe help.

more info needed

[kozikowski]

Recording what the computer is playing is a dance between Windows, the sound card, and the sound card driver software. If any one of them drops the ball, that the end of the story. This is a popular request and in some circumstances, you need to resort to Money Based Software like Total Recorder.

We did post a wiki on this.

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

And yes, it would be totally good to know what you're actually doing. Certain jobs like recording Skype can't be easily done even if you do everything else right.

Koz

[mjwman]

Sorry guys!
I want to record "what you hear"
I can hear it from the speakers and as I say I think I have enabled and selected the relevent bit but I just get a flat line.
PC is fine and that is the main thing.

[mjwman]

Just tried again and... it works! Nothing changed. Odd......