Why do I need the "Wave Out Mix" / "Stereo Mix" / "Record What you hear" feature?

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

Why do I need the "Wave Out Mix" / "Stereo Mix" / "Record What you hear" feature?

[OLDGUY]

anonymous:

I am no expert in this (or any) forum, but what I think is happening is this: a recording program looks for the sound input.This can be wave, stereo mix, the sound card, or whatever. If it doesn't find any input, it cannot record audio. Vista apparently "hides" whatever sound device you have so the program cannot find it to use it. I have tried 6 different programs, not one could find my sound card. This is my guess as to what is happening, I would appreciate any comment on it.

Originally Posted by any ANONYMOUS forum user

Why do I need the "Wave Out Mix" / "Stereo Mix" / "Record What you hear" feature?

The "Wave Out Mix" / "Stereo Mix" / "Record What you hear" feature allows you to record from your sound card anything that you hear.

The main reason of "Wave Out Mix" / "Stereo Mix" / "Record What you hear" being disabled in many newer sound cards is to prevent users from recording music especially the DRM protected one.

Where can you use "Wave Out Mix" / "Stereo Mix" / "Record What you hear":

• Record your voice with background music. Sound card can mix voice from a Mic and music together.
• Record DRM-protected music as MP3, WMA, WAV,... files.
• Record online music from social music services and radio stations
• Record the audio part when recording video from screen
• Record sound tracks from games
• Record Skype and VoIP calls.

Any other suggestions?

[toshfox]

yes it's useful when u want to play music on a chat room, msn or any software u can use microphone ...
instead of using the mic , u use stereo mix, so ppl only hear the music u play and not any noises u would have if mic used ( like typing on keyboard or else)