Recording from a Soundcard

[Sal B]

Is it possible to record from a PC soundcard? If so, how? What I'd like to do is record (to my computer's hard drive) the sound that's coming out of my computer (what I hear), regardless of the source of that sound? Is there software that does that---records directly from the source, even if that sound is coming from an online source and not from a CD playing in my computer? I have a laptop computer that runs Windows XP. Thanks.

 

[gordone]

Get Audacity (Google for the website). You shouldn't have much trouble setting it up to record whatever is currently playing through your PC's audio subsystem.

I used this a bunch of times to "record" the audio from some concert DVDs I own. I then was able to convert these tracks to mp3s and get them on my MP3 player. Only issue is if your PC stutters, or decides to "bleep" or whatever during the recording, this sound will also get recorded.

Good luck!

 

[TimOBrien]

There used to be a freeware (now I think it's shareware) program called "Total Recorder" that would record EVERYTHING that streamed through your PC directly to disk.

Go to www.hitsquad.com, they have a huge catalog of shareware/freeware links and you'll find something there that'll do it.

 

[altiris]

Audio Record Wizard works good. you can choose to record directly to mp3. Its very simple. It can record from the line in, "what you hear", mic.