Recording what I hear

[tubeman]

So it sounds like there is no way to do it ?

If "it" refers to "only record parts of what I hear" (instead of the topic ) :

You could check out total recorder (Shareware). Here, you can also specify for example you only want to record the "wave" channel and then can listen to midi or CD or line in at the same time. You also avoid the quality loss by AD/DA converting. If you click around however, and for example induce an error "pling", that'll go out the wave channel and be recorded...

nb: Of course, this whole thing is difficult, because real doesn't want you to record their streams in the first place... however if you google a little, you also find a bunch of tools to "capture real stream". With these, you can of course listen to whatever you want.

This isn't strictly an audacity answer, so please tell me if I violated the forum rules by that... I'm not associated with any of the stuff I'm linking to, of course.

[steve]

This isn't strictly an audacity answer, so please tell me if I violated the forum rules by that

I see nothing wrong with your reply. The moderators on this site will stamp pretty quickly on blatant, pointless, off topic advertising, but Audacity is not always the best tool for every job. In cases where another approach, or another program will provide a better alternative, then it is useful information to mention the alternatives. In fact, if you look in the official Audacity wiki http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... _Home_Page you will notice there is a section about "other software".

b: Of course, this whole thing is difficult, because real doesn't want you to record their streams in the first place... however if you google a little, you also find a bunch of tools to "capture real stream". With these, you can of course listen to whatever you want.

A good and simple free program that I've used for this is "rawavrecorder" http://rawavrecorder.homestead.com/

I think there is also a plug-in for WinAmp that can be used to support RealAudio, then the diskwriter plug-in can be used to write the data to disk.

[cowboy]

I'm recording and saving what I hear just fine.

But I still have a couple of issues.

1) I still don't see the options(inline, stereo mixer....) on the pulldown for the
mixer toolbar ?

2) after I save the project and play it I still can't find a way to fast forward
through it. Near as I can tell the arrow keys should do that, but they don't
for some reason.

[steve]

I'm recording and saving what I hear just fine.

That's good

1) I still don't see the options(inline, stereo mixer....) on the pulldown for the mixer toolbar ?

That's not unusual. That feature only works if it is supported by the sound card driver, and some sound card drivers do not support it (especially Vista) - This does not prevent Audacity working, it just means that you have to select the recording input using the Windows Mixer rather than selecting it from within Audacity.

I still can't find a way to fast forward through it. Near as I can tell the arrow keys should do that, but they don't for some reason.

The cursor keys should scroll through the track, but if you have a long recording and are zoomed out a long way then it may scroll very slowly.

I'm not sure how much of this next bit applies to v.1.2.6, (I use Audacity 1.3.5)
Look in the keyboard short-cut section of Audacity preferences (Edit > Preferences) and you will see that there are several keyboard combinations to help navigating along a track (examples: Shift+Cursor, Ctrl+Cursor, "End" key, "Home" key). Audacity 1.3.5 preferences also allow you to customise the length of the jump that cursor makes when you use some of these key combinations.

[cowboy]

Must be a Vista thing, I see in the preferences where the left/right arrow keys should fast forward .....
but they don't work....