Audacity??

Hi. Do you know how to record songs that are playing on your computer using Audacity? thanks.|||yes. your sound card must have "stereo mix" as an option for input though. basically just open audacity, then you'll see a drop down box that either says "microphone in" or "line in", if possible change it to stereo mix. if you don't have that option then no you can't do it using audacity. if you do, the next step would be to goto edit%26gt;preferences%26gt;click the audio I/O tab, change the channels to say 2 (stereo) under the recording section. now when you hit record, it will record in stereo. from here simply click record, then press play on the song you want, whatever is playing through the speakers will be recorded, you may want to do a few test runs to make sure the volume is loud enough, you want the waves to go as close to the tops and bottoms of the tracks as possible WITHOUT touching them, if you make it too loud, then it will sound "fuzzy" like it is being played through a megaphone. when you are done, you can delete the extra sections. then goto file, export as wav or as mp3. if you want it to be an mp3, you first have to have the Lame 3.96.1 encoder. http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/auda鈥?/a>


once you've saved it to your computer and extracted the zip file, open audacity, goto edit%26gt;preferences%26gt;fileformats tabs%26gt;click on find library and navigate to the folder where you have the lame encoder. once linked to it, the dropdown box should be enabled allowing you to set the mp3 quality. 320 being the best and 16 being the worst. i'd probably stick with 128, it is good quality and saves on space. now you can export as mp3. if you have any other questions about audacity or recording music, let me know. i've used audacity for over 5 years since build 1.0.