Hi, i'm looking for a solution to record "what i hear" on my pc. I found Virtual Audio Cable but it's hard to setup when i hear something interesting (let's say when i watch tv on browser) and i always have to make and remake the routes.

I also have reaper, but rearoute only supports asio routing and i didn't found an asio driver for the whole system (or at least for the browser). There is also the physical cable option, but i would like to preserve the already compressed sound quality.

Do you know another way for doing this? Thanks.

1. if it's from Youtube or similar, there are ways to simply extract the audio, no need for recording.

2. some audio cards (especially onboard ones with Realtek drivers) will give you a "Stereo mix" among the Windows sound recording devices (it's hidden/disabled by default). you can use that to record what you hear in an audio program.

the kx driver combined with a card like an audigy is probably what you want.

100% modular routing of everything. you can write your own plugins. create your own dsp modules (without programming, all editable inside the driver's mixer apps) and it comes with a large collection of them.

there are other options but few are as powerful. 4+ audio destinations (for normal sources like browsers). 16+ asio i/o. variable hardware i/o depending upon the card - including many analog and digital sources/destinations.

so what you could then do is set up the default windows audio channel to "1", and route everything there to asio "2" (2,3). assuming you normally have external sources routed to asio "1" (0,1).

you can route asio "1" to audio channel "2" so that what you output from your host isn't input into asio "2".

now you can record analog inputs (or digital too using more asio channels), audio generated by windows applications and also output audio from your host without feedback.

it's also possible to configure applications that have such configuration (winamp, etc) to use alternative outputs so they don't mix with the browser output.

I record directly into Audacity all the time. Don't quite remember the settings i'm afraid. You need to turn on a channel in the windows mixer. I'll look it up tomorrow.

what OS are you on? it's easy to set this up in Audacity, but the settings depend of your OS and audio device.

if you're on Windows you could try something like this:

http://www.freesoundrecorder.net/

(never tried it myself, just found it on Google)

actually has absolutely nothing to do with windows and 100% to do with the audio device / driver.

ermi, the stereo mix did the trick my main soundcard is m-audio audiophile firewire but i also have an onboard "soundmax hd" and if i choose soundmax as output it receives sound from it. it's weird though that m-audio don't have this option.

it's not for youtube, i have a tv website which uses windows media in the browser and i also use tunatic which works better with "line" input.

aciddose i used kx drivers for some time, they really are awesome.

bpblog i have windows 7 x64

For youtube there is a FF plugin, works fine:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/youtube-to-mp3/

always funny when you specifically set up conditions for your request and people suggest things that are completely inappropriate as if completely oblivious.

i'm sure the thread will turn into some kind of flash vs. silverlight thing in 3, 2, 1...

I use the Freecorder plugin with Firefox and it works very well. It directly encodes the steam into mp3.
If you want wav, I guess Audacity is the way to go.

Maybe some people haven't got time to read it all and try to help anyway.

i know. i only said it was funny. i actually was going to say "no offense" as well.

it was in the post above yours though usually a good idea to minimally read first and last post, then if you don't understand the context you have to read that.

at a certain point it gets too hard to reply at all so you just have to reply with something like "fish."