Recording Youtube Audio with Audacity in Windows XP

A short tutorial on capturing or recording Youtube - or any streaming audio - with Audacity. These instructions apply to Windows XP

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Education

Tags:

• youtube
• streaming
• audio
• capture
• record
• audacity
• windows
• xp
• tutorial

[whistlenotelover]

hi, I have an older computer {about 5 or 6 years old a dell laptop WINDOWS XP i believe} well when I go to the audacity mixer toolbar to select 'wave out mix' the bar is 'greyed' out and doesn't let me select anything. I guess I am having a sound driver issue, can you please guide as to how's the easiest way to go about fixing this issue, cuz I am totally lost.. THANK YOU SO MUCH for your time, and help in advance...

[sirmorphalot]

@whistlenotelover That's a little hard to diagnose at a distance. You could try going into your Sound Control Panel and making sure that your sound card is listed as an output device there. Temporarily making it the default output device may help.

[sirmorphalot]

@utubenotsoku One way would be to place the sound you're inserting into a new track. Position the beginning of the new sound at the point at which you want to insert it. Then, in the original track, highlight the section directly over the sound you want to insert. From the Generate menu, generate silence. The duration of the silence will default to the length of time you have highlighted. This will "push" the tail end of the original track over exactly the length of the insert

[VXselamspearsVX]

shit dont work

[sirmorphalot]

@SantiagoxMartinez Linking to external web sites is not available to the average user, only Google partners.

[sirmorphalot]

@zander181846 Linking to external web sites is not available to the average user, only Google partners.

[sirmorphalot]

@TheBriansDenn The screencasting is recorded in Camtasia Studio 5.

[SantiagoxMartinez]

@sirmorphalot A link in the description to the place where you download Audacity.

[zander181846]

@sirmorphalot I was referring to putting a link to the program you used. I went to the website as described and was not sure what to download. Other than that, great video.

[sirmorphalot]

@zander181846 To what are you referring? Linking in the video? Or in the comments? And to what?  To combat spam, Youtube doesn't allow links in comments. I've tried.