In the Recording Tab, showing 'all streams', you should see the Audacity stream (Audacity must be in recording mode!), and Audacity should be recording the audio playback of the computer. In the Configuration tab, under Built-in audio, select `Analog Stereo Duplex``

Close the Preferences window and start recording ( Shift+R).In the Recording tab, make sure that Software playthrough of input is not selected.Here is a better solution, using the Audacity and PulseAudio Volume Control: Beside the bad quality of the sound recording, a drawback of this approach is that it is going to pick up any noise in the room, unless you have two separate input (mic) and output (headpĥone) jacks on your computer, in which case you can use male-male jack cable to connect both. Let us suppose that you want to record the audio playback of your computer without any external recording system.Ī poor man's solution would be to plug a microphone in the audio input jack and record from it, say with the sound editor Audacity.

Recording computer audio with audacity