Recording wave out on E1405/640m

Does anyone know how to record wave out on the E1405 (or the 640m)?

I used to be able to do this easily on my old machine via Audacity...
I can't even find wave out on my volume control... weird.

any ideas?

 

I’m not exactly sure about the program you are talking about, but there are plenty of other sound recoding applications out there that let you record whatever you hear through the speakers. Just do a google search for a phrase like “record what you hear” or “record streaming audio” or something like that. One commercial application I found is called “Record Smart”

 

why are you recording sound coming out of the computer? Could you not put the audio file in a editing program?

Allot of pod cast software has utils that record but they record sound coming in and not out.

Wait what about some of those screen cap programes gamers use to record the screen? They do audio too.

 

Well I don't know if this applies to Vista but here is how I solved the problem with my XP installation on an IBM that had no Stereo Mix on the record side, only Mic in.

Basically the software (driver) is built to do everything including Stereo Mix. They are all that way. Well most of them are as it's much easier to design a driver to do everything and then disable functions in a config file. Redesigning a driver is very expensive. Disabling the Stereo Mix is a requirement that is artificially imposed so you don't capture (steal) audio streams.

For my particular driver which is a SoundMax driver (used im many PCs) the process should be very similar so this should work for most Laptops, Again I'm using IBM as an example.

I went to the IBM/Lenovo site and redownloaded the driver.

I saved the driver

I ran the .exe file and it extracted files into the C:\DRIVERS\WIN\Audio directory and 6 sub directories

look in the C:\DRIVERS\WIN\Audio\SMAXWDM\W2K_XP directory

look for a file named ADIHDAUD.inf file and double click on it to open it in Notepad.

This file dictactes how your audio driver is installed. part of the instructions in this file tell the installation to DISABLE stereo out. Lets change that

Be careful not to change anything in this file that you don't want to.

Look at line #270 of the text file (or you can also just use the find feature in notepad and search for "disable")and you will find an entry:

HKR,AD1984\\Disable, OutR, 1, 01 ;; Disable Stereo Mix Capture Node

Change that to

HKR,AD1984\\Disable, OutR, 1, 00 ;; Disable Stereo Mix Capture Node

By changing that 1 to a 0 you are now going to have an install that installs Stereo Mix

Save the file

Uninstall the sound driver (requires reboot). when you reboot is will say windows found the sound card. Hit cancel.

Install the new driver from running setup.exe from the C:\DRIVERS\WIN\Audio directory.

reboot

I had to then run the setup again. Not sure why but I did.

Reboot.

You are done.

I've done this on my gateway too and it worked.

There is a bunch of other stuff disabled in that .INF file but I didn't mess with that.

Good Luck