Record from audio stream to hard drive?

[gorilla1]

If I hear something in real player (or windows media player) is there a way I can record the audio so that it is stored in a sound file on my hard drive -- I just want the sound without the visual?

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[mark87]

You could use an audio editor such as Wavelab, but I'm guessing you wouldn't have one of those so...

Open up sound mixer (start>control panel>sounds and audio devices>volume tab>advanced button).

Options>Properties - select recording and click OK.

Select 'Wave' as input device.

Open up sound recorder (start>run>'sndrec32').

Record. :)

[gorilla1]

Wow, that's great. Only thing: where do you 'Select 'Wave' as input device.'?
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[mark87]

When you open the sound mixer, go to Options>Properties and select recording - then click OK, the mixer comes up in recording mode. Just select the tick box under 'Wave'.

[gorilla1]

Very nice, thanks!

[gorilla1]

One more question on this... When I record using this, it records 60 second stretches and stops. So I then need to hit start to resume the recording, which leaves a small gap. Is there a way to record a longer interval?