Anyone know of a program that will allow me to record sound playing on my computer?

Audacity®

Ohhh sweet I have audacity already. How the hell do I do that with it? Ive only used to to edit files I already have never to record.

Go to Edit/Preferences and in Recording select the device you want to record from this will depend on how you have set up your audio for your radio show

@uberbatman You may need a 3rd party device/program such as Jack or Soundflower to do it, but you can record directly into Audacity.

I think by default my computer didn’t come with one of these; I had to install it later, but I don’t know about yours.

@RareDenver hmmm well it just streams over the interwebs through shoutcast.com

I did as you said and went in the preferences and my options are “soundmax HD” or “Microsoft sound mapper” I would assume that I would then just hit record on audacity while the music is playing and itd record it but that doesnt seem to be working

@dverhey so your saying I need one of those programs for it to work in audacity or am I recording with that program?

@uberbatman what is the sound out from your PC connected too?

ScreenFlow?

@RareDenver I has a laptop so just the built in speakers

@dverhey & @Allie I dont has a mac which is what both of those programs seem to be for. :(

@uberbatman Ah, maybe check some of these?

@Allie my only concern with that route is that if its recording everything going on, on the screen, for two hours, thats going to turn into a huge fucking file. I only need the audio. I suppose I could then separate it out and what not but thats a pain in the balls. If there is a way I could just record audio itd work much better

@uberbatman so where does the audio come from for your radio show? Do you have microphones connected to some kind of mixing desk that in turn is connected to your audio in on the laptop?

@RareDenver when I play my show my laptop isnt involved in any way at all. I go to the station, they have a sound board with some cd players and mic hooked up to it. Then it goes out over the air but is also somehow (I dont really know) also streamed over the internet. So I can then play the show on any computer through z interwebs so I was thinking if there were a way to record any audio playing on my computer I could then record the show.

On OSX Audio Hijack Pro is supposed to be excellent.

@uberbatman okay I see, Freecorder can record the audio from an internet stream

@gorillapaws dont have mac.

@RareDenver sweet ill give it a shot when I get home later. Thanks

@uberbatman Jack is what I’ve used on windows before, and if you set the Jack input in audacity and then record from there you should get system audio.

@dverhey ahhh I only saw one for mac but I didnt look hard. Thanks Ill check that out too when I get home.

you guys are all awesome. I love asking questions and getting a ton of good responses to work out my problem in literally less than an hour.

@uberbatman could you not just ask the station to record the show for you?

Replay A/V is a not-free program which works great for me. It has a built-in scheduler so I don’t have to be around to turn it off and on.

http://www.applian.com/replay-av/

@RareDenver theyre pretty clueless about just about everything over there. Believe me, ive asked a lot. The one manager had recorded shows for me on cassette before but thats the extent of it lol.

Its like them and technology dont get along. Like even that stupid little blog I made for my show with my playlists was groundbreakingly awesome to them lol.

I use Download Helper (a Firefox plug in) to capture videos from YouTube and sites like that. The registered version allows you to extract the audio track and make MP3s that you can then use WMP or Nero to burn to CDs for your car…