Audacity Forum

The Manuel is lacking extremely highly detailed information about how to set the windows media player player into the input devices list and the new "beta"version has no inputs on the inputs list. All I want to do is put the windows media player on the inputs list. I'm using the newest Audacity "beta" on a HP Pavilion p6710f PC with windows 7 (vista) and internet explorer 9 and right now there is nothing on the possible choices on the input devices list. All I'm trying to do is take CD recordings of the sermons at my church and edit them into mp3 format so they can be posted on the churchs web site and the old Audacity on my old CPU was doing this verry well but verry slowly so I was just trying to speed up the process with the new software on this new CPU. I look forward to any extremely highly detailed help on this forum or emailed to [e-mail address removed]. Thanks in advance for your reply.

Perhaps you’ve been using the “record what U hear”, (a.k.a “stereo mix”, a.k.a. "wave out") setting on windows recording devices in Windows XP, to record a copy of the CD in Audacity, which you can then export as mp3.

However on newer versions of Windows, (Vista & 7), on some computers “record what U hear” (and similar) has been disabled, to prevent the computer manufacturer being sued for enabling copyright theft.

If your recording is on a CD you can “rip” the contents from it using windows media player and make a WAV or MP3 version (without Audacity)...
This “rip” method is a lot faster for converting CD contents to mp3 than “record what U hear” via Audacity.

If you don’t own the copyright on the CD, or have permission from someone who does, producing copies is technically theft ,
(say ten "Hail Mary"s and five "Our Father"s )
PS If you don't want to use the "rip" method, and want to use your old (slower) method, the input devices may be "invisible" rather than permanently disabled, see here how to make them visible on the list ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 26#p119326

It's a bad idea to post your e-mail address on a public forum, as they are prime targets for spammers that are looking for new victims, so I've removed your e-mail address from your post. Users will reply (as I see Trebor has done already) by posting a reply on the forum.