Record programs

[DumbSCRIPTguy]

Im looking for programs that record audio not using a microphone, but by recording from the file you are playing etc. if you are watching a movie, it will record the sound effects played etc.

[Bloodshedder]

This can be done with any regular audio recording program if you select the proper recording source in Windows volume control.

[AndrewB]

Goldwave is the easiest program to use to record audio.

To record from something other than microphone, do the following:

- Go to the volume control
- Go Options -> Properties
- Select Recording, then OK
- Select the source you want

[leileilol]

Audacity can do it and it's not shareware, which is why it pwns

What you need is a sound card that has more than one sound buffer, i.e. NOT Sound Blaster 16s, just Lives and up from there.

[Remilia Scarlet]

Or if you want a hacked-up way of doing it, or only have an older sound card, get a mini-to-mini cable (1/8" mini connectors on both sides). Then connect one end to the line out, one to the line in. Record as normal, then. I remember having to do this once before.

[kristus]

Windows soundrecorder can do that.

[AndrewB]

DJ_Haruko said:

Or if you want a hacked-up way of doing it, or only have an older sound card, get a mini-to-mini cable (1/8" mini connectors on both sides). Then connect one end to the line out, one to the line in. Record as normal, then. I remember having to do this once before.

I would not recommend this for any project that requires the slightest hint of audio quality. It's akin to taping a favorite show by putting a camcorder in front of your TV set.

BTW I did it too, about 10 years ago, before sound cards had those extra buffers.

kristus said:

Windows soundrecorder can do that.

That'd better be a joke.

[Piezo]

Like Bloodshedder just said, set the recording device to stereo mix or mono mix instead of microphone under the volume control panel.