Sound recorder - background sounds

How do you record the background sounds through Sound Recorder? (e.g.
i want to record the sounds I'm hearing through the computer speaker
as a file on Sound Recorder)

Jeff

Aim the microphone(s) at the speaker(s), I'd guess.

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"jeffreyj" <> wrote in message
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> How do you record the background sounds through Sound Recorder? (e.g.
> i want to record the sounds I'm hearing through the computer speaker
> as a file on Sound Recorder)
>
> Jeff

audacity might do the trick, it's on sourceforge, its free, it works on
vista

"jeffreyj" <> wrote in message
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> How do you record the background sounds through Sound Recorder? (e.g.
> i want to record the sounds I'm hearing through the computer speaker
> as a file on Sound Recorder)
>
> Jeff

"jeffreyj" <> wrote in message
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> How do you record the background sounds through Sound Recorder? (e.g.
> i want to record the sounds I'm hearing through the computer speaker
> as a file on Sound Recorder)
>
> Jeff

What are these sounds coming from, and when?

The reason I ask is that if you are hearing a sound - to take, for example,
the Windows Startup sound - from the PC, it already exists as a digital
sound file and there isn't a need to re-record them.

What you would do is look at the application you're using, make a note of
what you're doing when the sound is heard, then look at the options to
identify the sound file name.

HTH
-pk

On Aug 8, 6:27*pm, "Patrick Keenan" <t...@dev.null> wrote:
> "jeffreyj" <johjeff...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:f655651c-684f-47d4-b73a-...
>
> > How do you record the background sounds throughSoundRecorder? *(e.g.
> > i want to record the sounds I'm hearing through the computer speaker
> > as a file onSoundRecorder)
>
> > Jeff
>
> What are these sounds coming from, and when?
>
> The reason I ask is that if you are hearing asound- to take, for example,
> the Windows Startupsound- from the PC, it already exists as a digitalsoundfile and there isn't a need to re-record them.
>
> What you would do is look at the application you're using, make a note of
> what you're doing when thesoundis heard, then look at the options to
> identify thesoundfile name.
>
> HTH
> -pk

I'm trying to record an online call on Skype actually. I want to
record what I'm hearing through my headset and what I'm saying through
the microphone. Can you do that?

I tried enabling the "WaveOut Mix" under "Recording Devices", but it
didn't work.

Jeff

"jeffreyj" <> wrote in message
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On Aug 8, 6:27 pm, "Patrick Keenan" <t...@dev.null> wrote:
> "jeffreyj" <johjeff...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:f655651c-684f-47d4-b73a-...
>
> > How do you record the background sounds throughSoundRecorder? (e.g.
> > i want to record the sounds I'm hearing through the computer speaker
> > as a file onSoundRecorder)
>
> > Jeff
>
> What are these sounds coming from, and when?
>
> The reason I ask is that if you are hearing asound- to take, for example,
> the Windows Startupsound- from the PC, it already exists as a
> digitalsoundfile and there isn't a need to re-record them.
>
> What you would do is look at the application you're using, make a note of
> what you're doing when thesoundis heard, then look at the options to
> identify thesoundfile name.
>
> HTH
> -pk

I'm trying to record an online call on Skype actually. I want to
record what I'm hearing through my headset and what I'm saying through
the microphone. Can you do that?

I tried enabling the "WaveOut Mix" under "Recording Devices", but it
didn't work.

Jeff
============

Ok, that's a completely different scenario, and you can't do this with
Windows Recorder. You could probably do it with a 3rd party app that
records streams, such as Windows Media Recorder.

http://www.wmrecorder.com/
HTH
-pk

Ah ok then. Well in that case, I still want to know how do I get the
Waveout Mix thing to work?

On my old XP computer, it worked just fine. I could record background
sounds, anything, I could record calls with that too, actually.

When I go to Recording Devices, there is Microphone and Waveout Mix.
I can record from Microphone, but not from Waveout Mix. Waveout Mix
is marked as "unavailable", and when I try to record with it, it says
the recording device cannot be found. I don't know why it doesn't
work.

Thanks
Jeff

On Aug 12, 5:16*pm, "Patrick Keenan" <t...@dev.null> wrote:
> "jeffreyj" <johjeff...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:68cb9b1e-3b4a-4813-9645-...
> On Aug 8, 6:27 pm, "Patrick Keenan" <t...@dev.null> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > "jeffreyj" <johjeff...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:f655651c-684f-47d4-b73a-...
>
> > > How do you record the background sounds throughSoundRecorder? (e.g.
> > > i want to record the sounds I'm hearing through the computer speaker
> > > as a file onSoundRecorder)
>
> > > Jeff
>
> > What are these sounds coming from, and when?
>
> > The reason I ask is that if you are hearing asound- to take, for example,
> > the Windows Startupsound- from the PC, it already exists as a
> > digitalsoundfile and there isn't a need to re-record them.
>
> > What you would do is look at the application you're using, make a note of
> > what you're doing when thesoundis heard, then look at the options to
> > identify thesoundfile name.
>
> > HTH
> > -pk
>
> I'm trying to record an online call on Skype actually. *I want to
> record what I'm hearing through my headset and what I'm saying through
> the microphone. *Can you do that?
>
> I tried enabling the "WaveOut Mix" under "Recording Devices", but it
> didn't work.
>
> Jeff
> ============
>
> Ok, that's a completely different scenario, and you can't do this with
> WindowsRecorder. * *You could probably do it with a 3rd party app that
> records streams, such as Windows MediaRecorder.
>
> http://www.wmrecorder.com/
> HTH
> -pk- Hide quoted text -
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