Audacity Forum

ok, i know about the stereo mixing thing, at least on the older audacity. but it didnt work on my machine.
so installed the beta version audacity, and i need a step by step what to do upon installation to record audio file from computer, using audacity (exactly what to do) so i can get it to an mp3 file, with the desired efects of the realtek sound quality, ultimately to mp3 player and or cd.
my experience using audacity, is to record from youtube (on xp, and now i run 7 ), and i used to convert wav to mp3 from digital recorder, to upload to the net as mp3...i have no real experience trying to record from computer, as i never knew realtek could enhance a file. i am a lecturer, and realtek allows me to sound like i am in an auditoreum, but in reality, im not. now i would like to use audacity to sample this efect.
if anyone can explain how to do this (not just be ABLE to record with win 7, but the actual recording steps as well), it would be appreciated. ty
david

You can read about my experience getting Realtek sound to record "what you hear" aka stereo mix with Windows 7 here:

http://tinyurl.com/27rcnrk

It isn't pretty. It is frustrating and you may ultimately fail. I ultimately succeeded, but it wasn't fun.

Workarounds are to run a cable from your sound card speaker outputs to your microphone inputs, or to buy a USB sound card, or both.

"Stereo Mix" is just more difficult in Windows 7 than ever before, most likely a deliberate move by Microsoft and the sound card manufacturers/developers.

Good luck.