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Title: Recording what I hear
Post by: Alpha Omicron on October 04, 2006, 12:17:55 PM

Hey, I got a neat DTMF tone dialing program, but it can't save what it plays.
Does anyone know how I can convert what I'm hearing through my speakers into an mp3 file?
I was thinking of recording some of the phone numbers i call alot, then uploading them to my mp3 player, and tone dialing instead of pushing buttons, you dig?

Title: Re: Recording what I hear
Post by: rbcp on October 04, 2006, 12:26:14 PM

Select "What Your Hear" in your Windows recording control panel.

Title: Re: Recording what I hear
Post by: frog on October 04, 2006, 12:29:47 PM

Quote from: rbcp on October 04, 2006, 12:26:14 PM

Select "What Your Hear" in your Windows recording control panel.

Jeez, RBCP, you're negative.

Title: Re: Recording what I hear
Post by: Alpha Omicron on October 04, 2006, 02:14:40 PM

Ya, i know. i sound so dumb. i'm just unfamiliar with software crap.

Title: Re: Recording what I hear
Post by: silentneep on October 04, 2006, 02:59:21 PM

Which software are you using to support your soundcard?

Title: Re: Recording what I hear
Post by: Alpha Omicron on October 04, 2006, 03:11:34 PM

see the post immediately above yours, neep.

Title: Re: Recording what I hear
Post by: silentneep on October 04, 2006, 03:27:29 PM

Yeah, I caught that you're not familiar with it... You don't know the name of it, so that we might help you to understand it?

Title: Re: Recording what I hear
Post by: MattGSX on October 04, 2006, 09:35:37 PM

Alpha:

Download a free sound recording program such as Audacity.

Instructions:
1) Install Audacity
2) If you're in Windows and have a little speaker icon in your bottom right-hand corner, double click it. Otherwise, go to the Start menu on the left side, go to All Programs, Accessories, Entertainment, Volume Control.
3) From Volume Control, bring up the Options (or File, depending on what ver. of Windows) pulldown (menu) and select Properties.
4) Hit the "recording" button to select it. Check all the checkboxes that come up. Hit OK.
5) A mixer will come up. One of the sliders should be labeled either "What you hear" or "Stereo Out" or "Stereo Mix" depending on what ver. of Windows you run. Hit one of those and move the slider to about halfway up.
6) Open Audacity and go to File-New.
7) Hit the record button (it has a red circle, it's near the top). When you are done recording, hit the stop button (the big black square one next to it). When you need to listen, either hit Play or you may have to rewind first. I'm not too familiar with Audacity, to tell you the honest truth.

There you have it. If you're not using Windows, then I can't really help you any better than that.

Title: Re: Recording what I hear
Post by: Alpha Omicron on October 05, 2006, 10:47:49 AM

Wow, thanks for detailed response matt! I'll try that.

Title: Re: Recording what I hear
Post by: MattGSX on October 06, 2006, 06:19:31 PM

Glad I can help you out, man. If you get any fun recordings just be sure to put them up.