Recording audio sound on Pc

peter999

How can I record audio sound on my Pc ?

I want to record an interview off a programme on BBC iPlayer.

My machine is Windows XP.

Are there any built-in tools that come with XP or can I download something ?

Thanks

OneADay

http://www.wikihow.com/Extract-Audio-from-YouTube-Using-Windows-Vista-and-Audacity

peter999

OneADay wrote: »

http://www.wikihow.com/Extract-Audio-from-YouTube-Using-Windows-Vista-and-Audacity

Will that work for BBC iPlayer ?

OneADay

peter999 wrote: »

Will that work for BBC iPlayer ?

Ought to , same thing - you are playing a video on the web and recording sound.

buglawton

Lucky you have an XP machine, as Windows 7 & newer prevents this.

Ximian

I use Audacity to record sound on my PC. There is an option to select what sound source you would like to record and if you want to record sound from a streaming video like BBC iPlayer, or Youtube then select the option in Audacity: "what you hear".
I you wish to save the recorded sound to MP3 then you need to download the LAME encoder, available from here: http://lame.buanzo.org/

Installation instructions: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Lame_Installation#Windows_Instructions

Backbiter

buglawton wrote: »

Lucky you have an XP machine, as Windows 7 & newer prevents this.

Prevents what? Recording sound?

I use Audacity all the time on Windows 7. I believe there is a default setting that needs to be changed to get it to work, but it was simple to do. Just google it.

buglawton

Lucky for you if it worked, AFAIK MS ensured with Windows 7 & higher, that on most hardware, the soundcard ('what you hear') output is greyed out and cannot be selected as a recording input. There is some dodgy non freeware software out there that claims to get round this and other unattractive suggestions about retrofitting Windows XP soundcard drivers.

This link sums up the situation on my hardware:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/Cannot-record-streaming-audio-on-T530/td-p/947553

Backbiter

Here's some help on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjQ_qS-LaoU

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eooYYq1sXDI

Ximian

buglawton wrote: »

Lucky for you if it worked, AFAIK MS ensured with Windows 7 & higher, that on most hardware, the soundcard ('what you hear') output is greyed out and cannot be selected as a recording input. There is some dodgy non freeware software out there that claims to get round this and other unattractive suggestions about retrofitting Windows XP soundcard drivers.

This link sums up the situation on my hardware:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/Cannot-record-streaming-audio-on-T530/td-p/947553

This wasn't an issue for me, I have a Windows 7 machine with a Soundblaster Xi-Fi sound card though.

peter999

OneADay wrote: »

Ought to , same thing - you are playing a video on the web and recording sound.

This works ok, thanks.

Any suggestions & advice on best format (wav, mp3 etc.) to save recorded audio files ?