Subject:Recording streaming Audio - Simple question Pls help!

Posted by: iCkEmAn

Date:1/21/2003 2:00:17 PM

Hi,
How do i record streaming audio from the web using soundforge 6.0?

Subject:RE: Recording streaming Audio - Simple question Pls help!

Reply by: MJhig

Date:1/21/2003 2:46:48 PM

In the systray, double-click the speaker icon > Options > Properties > Recording > OK, check to select the "Mixed Output or What U Hear or Stereo Output" or something named similar that will send anything you soundcard is playing to SF.

MJ

Subject:RE: Recording streaming Audio - Simple question Pls help!

Reply by: iCkEmAn

Date:1/21/2003 3:35:08 PM

how do i get to 'systray'?

Subject:RE: Recording streaming Audio - Simple question Pls help!

Reply by: MJhig

Date:1/21/2003 5:48:14 PM

It's the depressed area at the lower right in your taskbar.

MJ

Subject:RE: Recording streaming Audio - Simple question Pls help!

Reply by: Eschuman

Date:2/20/2003 8:19:02 PM

I'm trying to work this identical problem, but the excellent advice given by mjhig doesn't seem to be working for me. That suggestion was "In the systray, double-click the speaker icon > Options > Properties > Recording > OK, check to select the 'Mixed Output or What U Hear or Stereo Output' or something named similar that will send anything you soundcard is playing to SF."

I get all the way to Recording, but I don't have any of those three options. How else might it be described? I'm guessing this MIGHT be an OS issue or at least an OS version issue. I'm running Office 2000 Professional, but I am about to upgrade to XP.

Subject:RE: Recording streaming Audio - Simple question Pls help!

Reply by: MJhig

Date:2/20/2003 8:26:22 PM

When you get to Recording, what displays in the list "Show the following volume controls" or somthing similar? What soundcard do you have?

MJ

Subject:RE: Recording streaming Audio - Simple question Pls help!

Reply by: Eschuman

Date:2/20/2003 11:03:37 PM

What soundcard do I have? Crystal SoundFusion. (It's on a Thinkpad laptop.)
What displays in the list "Show the following volume controls"?
Stereo Mix
Mono Mix
CD Player
Microphone
Line In
Aux
Phone Line

Is Stereo Mix likely to do it? I'd have loved to have the "What U Hear" option, which sounds perfect. Alas, it's not there.

Subject:RE: Recording streaming Audio - Simple question Pls help!

Reply by: CyberPuppy

Date:2/20/2003 11:10:55 PM

Only specific sound cards can record "what you hear", primarily Creative Labs cards, and IMHO the results of those recordings are pretty meager. If you are using a higher end sound card as your recording device, you won't be able to record streaming media in this way. What I do is use my Audigy as my playback device, designated as so in the Windows control panel under Sounds and Multimedia, but I have my Echo Gina (secondary high end sound card) setup as my preferred recording device with Sound Forge. Then, I route the output from the Audigy into one of the inputs of the Gina and bingo, I'm recording streaming media.

Subject:RE: Recording streaming Audio - Simple question Pls help!

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:2/20/2003 11:24:24 PM

Eschuman, what do you have for choices under Device in Sound Forge's recording dialog? Try them all while streaming audio. One of them might make the recording meters move.

I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496. I have no problems recording anything that streams. All I have to do is route audio to my soundcard's software mixer and select it as input under Device. Works like a charm.

HTH,
Iacobus

Subject:RE: Recording streaming Audio - Simple question Pls help!

Reply by: MJhig

Date:2/21/2003 10:52:29 AM

Looks like either Stereo Mix or Mono Mix would work provided these are listed in the Recording window, not the Playback window. Try it, select Stereo Mix > launch the Record window in SF > play something in Windows Media Player (or other player) > check the meters in SF while adjusting the fader for record level in the Stereo Mix channel.

MJ

Subject:RE: Recording streaming Audio - Simple question Pls help!

Reply by: vanblah

Date:2/21/2003 12:10:43 PM

Here is a freeware application for doing just this :

Silent-Bob

You'll have to mess around with the various levels etc. I have never used this program though, so I can't give any advice.

Doug

Subject:RE: Recording streaming Audio - Simple question Pls help!

Reply by: Eschuman

Date:2/21/2003 5:33:41 PM

That worked perfectly! Thanks.

Subject:RE: Recording streaming Audio - Simple question Pls help!

Reply by: MJhig

Date:2/21/2003 7:57:43 PM

You talking to me???? (ala Robert De Niro :O) If so, your welcome.

MJ