Part 1: How to Record Music with Audacity.HP PC… 2 years old… pretty high quality computer.Ī friend of mine is a computer tech… he spent two hours trying to resolve the problem… so I think the devices are enabled to play audio… I can playback audio from youtube… I can play music files through Media Player on my PC… Audacity records, but there is nothing being fed to it to record. Recording Channels: 2 (Stereo) Recording Channels Playback Device: Realtek HD Audio 2nd Playback I have checked my Audio Setup in Audacity and it has the settings that have always worked.Ĭould it be that my computer does not have the proper devices activated? I tried several recommendations… tried turning off the software playthrough… tried starting the song on youtube first and then hitting record… still will not record the song, but you can see the bar in the record track moving and indicating it is record… Audacity is not receiving the audio feed. I have done this for many years with not problem.

I don’t think youtube is restricting the recording. Just so you know, I have read all the previous posts related to my problem and tried to do the suggestions, but none of them worked.Īppreciate the reply, but reading the manual doesn’t give me an answer to my problem. Would appreciate any help you might give. I am computer-challenged, so please keep it as simple as possible… don’t assume I am very smart with computers and Audacity… for years I have used Audacity to process and normalize my music files… but it was just load the song up, edit the beginning and the end so they would have a second of silence on them, so they would play well without a lot of dead space on my CDs I made. I don’t know if this is related…I also recently began recording a radio show using a Peavey mixer and mike. I used an older version 2.3 for years and had no problem.ĭownloaded 3.3 and now I cannot record a song… at first when I clicked “record” I would immediately get an error 9999… but I accidently got it to start the recording process, but it will not show the song I am playing. In the past I have always been able to start the record, then start the song on youtube and it shows the song being recorded. When I click record in Audacity, it records silence instead of the song I am trying to download from youtube.

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