Cannot record streaming audio w/ audacity & soundflower

[asongbird]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. simply selecting soundflower as the input device for audacity
2. channel 2 or 16, makes no difference
3. hitting record button on audacity fails to make it record

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect to record track in audacity. message is: stream is operating but no data can be collected

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Audacity 1.3.10.0 Soundflower 1.5.1 Mac OX 10.5.8

Please provide any additional information below.
Audacity works fine otherwise, i.e. with mike, etc.

[billw58]

Recording streaming audio with Soundflower is counter-intuitive.

In the System Preferences > Sound control panel, set Soundflower (2 ch) as the output device. Your speakers will be muted. Now in Audacity select Soundflower as the input device. Click on the recording level meters to start monitoring and you should be good to go.

-- Bill

[kozikowski]

It's one of the objections I had to SoundFlower. All it does is provide the signal pathways. It's up to you to find them -- and they're not clearly labeled.

Koz