Hello,

I would like to know what a laptop needs to have to have the possibility to
record internet radio stations.
A few days ago I bought a laptop , Compal FL 90 , with Realtek sound card
and windows XP home edition
but unfortunately I can't record and internet radio. I checked setup in
Realtek sound card but there are only two possibilities
two choose from in recording : MIDI or Microphone . The problem is that it
doesn't allow me to record any sound.

I checked google , I saw that other people have similar problem.

Please help me to solve this problem because it's very important to me.
I use recording radio stations for studying English language.

Tomek

Tomek wrote:
mapper for in- and output.
Select stereo-mix for input, and any sound currently playing , can
be sampled/stored.

I'm afraid I've got everything like you said with one difference, I can't
choose Stereo-mix but only Stereo.

Tomek

"Tomek" <tomolder28@gazeta.pl> wrote in message
news:fmv582$mk$1@inews.gazeta.pl...
Most sound cards won't record the sound that is actually being output. But
if you don't mind spending some cash, the Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS does. It
is a PCMCIA card (their description) so easy to install. As a bonus it
provides a line input and optical input and output and 7.1 surround sound -
things most laptops lack.

In news:479846dd$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net,
M.I.5¾ typed on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:22:25 -0000:
I think you have that backwards! As I believe *most* will and I
personally haven't seen one that won't yet. But I hear rumors they are
out there somewhere. Even the cheap Packard Bell computers from the 90's
could record the audio outputs.

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Bill
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Re: "Most sound cards won't record the sound that is actually being output."

That is not true, you are living in the past. Almost all modern sound
systems are "full duplex" and can do exactly that.

If the mixer for the sound system doesn't support it, then he may need a
software product such as "Total Recorder", which is precisely for
recording things that are currently playing through the sound system,
including things you are not supposed to be able to record (electronic
audio books, DRM protected music, streaming and supposedly protected
webcasts, etc.).


M.I.5¾ wrote:

In news:479954f5$0$31763$4c368faf@roadrunner.com,
Barry Watzman typed on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:17:59 -0500:
I haven't ever seen a computer (laptop or desktop) that didn't have a
mixer function. I am not saying they don't exists, I just never seen one
yet.

I am not sure if half or full duplex has anything to do with the mixer.
As for example, my Gateway MX6124 laptops when using KW-TVUSB506RF-PRO
TV tuner in time shifting mode (TiVo like), it sports no delayed sound.
All I hear is live sound all of the time. Although watch it live or
record it in real time, all is well.

I assume this problem (works on other computers) is because the sound
card is a half duplex. Thus it can't handle recording live and playing
back a delayed version from a file at the same time. But these same
laptops have no problems recording from the mixer at all. Thus any sound
the speakers make can be recorded.

So what do you think?

--
Bill
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