Windows 7 forum: Windows 7 - Recording from sound card

Unfortunately what you're doing is a form of music piracy. So, we can't discuss it here. Sorry.

Now if you can show us written evidence that the streaming site in question explicitly allows for people to record copies of their stream, and all content played is either not copyrighted or the copyright holders have given their consent to the recording of the stream by people such as yourself... Well, that would change everything, but until then this is probably going to end up being locked.

Thank you very much. I wanted to record some radio programs. I thought that they are in public domain once broadcast. Now I will bear in mind what you said about copyrights.

Balasubramanian VS

I still remember me and my friends recording music from the radio on a tape recorder back in the 19-sixties. I had made an output for it on my transistor radio (that was how they were called then) from the 2 ends of the volume control pot. Worked very well.

That probably wasn't allowed either. But, then, nobody told us. There was no Internet to ask anybody, of course, so how could we have known.

I might still have the tapes somewhere. But no player to play them.

Kees

If someone is recording music from a service that they are paying for and don't distribute it to anyone there should be no issues of copywriting. I've contacted the RIAA regarding the personal use of using music files and they indicated that by the letter of the law you shouldn't but realistically it is probably not a problem. The issue of copywriting is when someone distributes music files to many sources thus causing a reduction of sales for this product. However, this probably is a false assumption on the music industry's part in that all of the people that I know who copy stuff (software, music, etc.) would NEVER purchase these items anyway. They just love to copy 'stuff'. So from the music industry's perspective they haven't lost any revenue.

Personally I believe the music industry has made too much of an issue out of the copywrite law. Most of the music out there is garbage and with a life expectancy of 6 months or less (according to music industry officials). The markup for CD is excessive and the music industry even separates good songs from junk and forces consumers to purchase multiple disks to get the two or three songs they really want. These marketing practices I believe is what started all of the copying as the industry has been screwing the public (and still is) for years and years. Like everything else in life if I buy it I should be able to do as I please with it.

If you can't get it to work, cheat. Connect the audio out to a Y cable then loop back into the LINE IN jack and monitor with headphones or external speakers.

You can check the Audacity forums for other ideas but if you've fiddled long enough, you get wired.
Bob

Control Panel... Sound... Recording Tab...
Right click on any entry, Show Disabled Devices, make sure Sterio Mix is enabled. Should work for you.