need Help COOL edit REc youtube and other things

i've tried youtube tutorials but i'm still lost. hopefully this is easy to do. i'd like to record sounds of anything that my computer is playing , youtube videos specifically

i don't want to record from comp to outside hardware

i'm using windows 7

Audacity

On PC you literally just hit record

damn, so i gotta learn a new program. *shrug*. thanks

oops didn't realise you were talking about a program in the titlelol.

Thought it was just in dudespeak, ya dig? Cool.

haha. either way, i have both programs installed now and neither working so shoots some ideas at me, guys.

oh, you have to shoose windows WASAPI under Audio Host

  On 3/3/2016 at 8:09 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

right click on the speaker on your taskbar, go to recording devices, select stereo mix.

 

does this work?

stereo mix enabled. i think i need to go menu diving or something

  On 3/3/2016 at 8:11 AM, hello spiral said:

oh, you have to shoose windows WASAPI under Audio Host

 

i've done that,arghh

  On 3/3/2016 at 8:26 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

some sound cards are a bit stuffy with it. keep digging around. maybe get asio4all?

i have asio4all

thanks guys. i'm going to keep trying

ha! stereo mix didn't work but i flipped to steinberg line in (my soundcard) and it works now. great!

old windows version allowed to do this pretty easily, nowadays i just use this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Audio_Cable

  On 3/3/2016 at 8:11 AM, hello spiral said:

oh, you have to shoose windows WASAPI under Audio Host

 

is this win7?

oh wait it's audacity.... yes, the loopback function!

I use clipconvertor.cc to rip or convert the youtubes into audio or visual formats.

  On 3/3/2016 at 8:54 AM, yek said:

ha! stereo mix didn't work but i flipped to steinberg line in (my soundcard) and it works now. great!

noice. yeah was going to say, stereo mix method only seems to work for certain sound cards. ive had it not appear at all on some computers.

  On 3/4/2016 at 8:09 AM, bitroast said:

 

  On 3/3/2016 at 8:54 AM, yek said:

ha! stereo mix didn't work but i flipped to steinberg line in (my soundcard) and it works now. great!

noice. yeah was going to say, stereo mix method only seems to work for certain sound cards. ive had it not appear at all on some computers.