Can't think of the name of a program...

[lostcarpark]

I used to have a program that would record whatever was playing on the sound card to a WAV file that could then be compressed to an MP3. Can anyone suggest a freeware program that does this? If it can save it directly as MP3, that would be a bonus. If it's open source, better still.

Thanks in advance!

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[jacobsmills.livejournal.com]

Yup, Audacity would do it....
Handles a couple of formats (although I think you need to download a plugin for .ogg files )

I use it for recording radio programes coming through the TV card.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

I want to extract sound out of some Flash and Real files. The program I had before was intercepting the data being sent to the sound card and saving it to a WAV. If Audacity can do that too, fantastic, but what do I select as the inpout? I tried selecting "Stereo Mix" then playing a Flash file, but all it recorded was silence.

[jacobsmills.livejournal.com]

Ummmm.... errrrrr..... Stereo Mixer should work.

I just tried it on Flash and RealVideo files and it's fine....

I suppose you could check your sound settings both in Audacity and generally - there was a program on my computer that managed to mute things without me knowing it, but....ummm... nope, Stereo Mixer should have worked :OO




If the worst came to the worst, a jack from speaker out to line in, although that would be a last ditch approach and at a guess would provide crap results...