Recording audio from the speaker

[Colin Law]

2009/8/27 Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com>:
> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 17:21 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> > Audacity has been good for me.
>> >
>>
>> That was my first thought, but I have tried all the Recording devices
>> listed and none of the would record what was playing in another app.
>> All that was recorded was silence (irrelevant Deep Impact quote: 27
>> minutes of silence).
>
> would it be a possibility to just get a male-male speaker plug, and plug
> that into your microphone port, and into your line-out? I've used this
> method to record some of my dad's old vinyl records onto CDs that he can
> listen to in his car (though this was from record-player headphone jack
> to PC-mic, but the principal should be the same).
>

That should be possible but it is much better to capture it on the way
out, quality will be lost by converting it to audio then picking it up
again via the mic in.

Colin