Here's tip #11 on my Vista > Movie Maker > Intro page... it turned the
feature on for my Home Basic and Ultimate SP1 systems.
#11 - 'Out of the Box' the Narration options of MM6 don't include the
'Stereo Mix' that MM2.1 in XP has, the feature that lets you capture a
narration file from whatever is playing on your computer. But the feature is
there to be turned on.
Use the Control Panel > Sound > Recording tab > Right click on the
background and choose "show disabled devices." > Right click on Wave Out Mix
(Stereo Mix) and click enable. It should now work the same way as Wave Out
Mix (Stereo Mix) in Windows XP, allowing you to record the sounds your
computer plays.
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"BobThompson" <BobThompson@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On my old XP machine I could go into the "sound" option, select recording
> options and check the "stereo mix" box, then play a song in Windows Media
> Player and record in Roxio or another sound recording application. This
> was
> a useful way to convert song files from one format to another (for
> example,
> from wmf to mp3, or from some proprietary iTunes or Rhapsody format to
> mp3).
>
> This option isn't available on my new Gateway running Windows Vista. The
> new sound menu has "Recording options" and "Playback options". Under
> "Recording options" it only has Microphone, Aux and Line In. None of
> these
> work for recording from the computer. Is this a limitation of my machine,
> or
> of Vista? Is there a way around this problem? How do I record from the
> sound card in Vista?