record directsound

[beele]

I've been trying to record the sound that my computer plays through the speakers (e.g: directsound.).

I've been using audacity for this but this gives me a strange audio artifact, so I tried it with fraps.

Fraps works but I only need to record audio and no video (it's not even a game). Does anyone knows a good program to capture the windows directsound stream?

Thanks in advance.

[Syuusuke]

I use goldwave...but I bought that one...

I don't really know any "free" ones...but do you use XP?

If so, you can go into the Sounds settings in the Control Panel and change the Recording settings to "Line In" instead of whatever it is at. Line is pretty much everything you hear from your speakers (at least from my experience).

Now somewhere in your desktop right-click and make a new sound (.wav) file. Right click that new wav file and click on Record and well, record =D To convert it, I'd just google something like "wav to <file format here> converter"

Now I expect someone to post an easier way, probably a program.

[beele]

I use goldwave...but I bought that one...

I don't really know any "free" ones...but do you use XP?

If so, you can go into the Sounds settings in the Control Panel and change the Recording settings to "Line In" instead of whatever it is at. Line is pretty much everything you hear from your speakers (at least from my experience).

Now somewhere in your desktop right-click and make a new sound (.wav) file. Right click that new wav file and click on Record and well, record =D To convert it, I'd just google something like "wav to <file format here> converter"

Now I expect someone to post an easier way, probably a program.

I thought "line in" was the (blue) connector in my pc to capture sounds from external devices or amplifiers.

I have vista (although I have an XP pro running in vmware.)

[Syuusuke]

It probably is, but, everytime I set my recording to use Line In, it would pick up anything my speaker plays.

[OmegaDragon]

You don't need a new program to be able to record your computer sounds! All you have to do is right click the speaker icon in the bottom right corner, select volume control, then go to options>properties and select recording. Once you have recording selected, make sure that stereo mixer is selected and press OK. You should now be in the microphone settings. From there, just select the box under stereo mixer, and all the sounds that come out of your speaker, should be going in like if it were a microphone.

If you want to record it, just use the windows recorder (60 secs max; if you want more use goldwave), and you should now be recording all the sounds from your PC.