{"id":1367,"date":"2012-04-14T13:31:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T18:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2012-04-14T19:08:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T00:08:48","slug":"in-windows-audacity-needs-hidden-realtek-driver-to-record-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2012\/in-windows-audacity-needs-hidden-realtek-driver-to-record-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"In Windows, Audacity needs hidden Realtek driver to record audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Realtek audio is used in almost every cheap-assed mobo these days, and they HIDE THE DEVICE that lets you capture sound! Wow, this is apparently done to PREVENT COPYRIGHT ABUSE, when will the world get a grip? Anyway, here&#8217;s what you do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Right-click the tray sound icon, and select Recording Devices&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>SUPER TOP SECRET TIP rofl&#8230; Right-click on list of devices, and select both Show Disabled and Disconnected Devices<\/li>\n<li>Enable and set Stereo Mix as the default<\/li>\n<li>Fire up <a href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/\" title=\"Audacity\" target=\"_blank\">Audacity<\/a> and get some sampling done!  It will help you grab LAME to export to MP3, so you can record cool stuff like <a href='http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/jarmusch_must_not_obey_them.mp3'>this<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_1368\" style=\"width: 534px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/RealtekSecretDecoderRing.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1368\" data-attachment-id=\"1368\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2012\/in-windows-audacity-needs-hidden-realtek-driver-to-record-audio\/realteksecretdecoderring\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/RealtekSecretDecoderRing.png?fit=524%2C523&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"524,523\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RealtekSecretDecoderRing\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Realtek TOP SECRET CLASSIFIED DRIVER ACCESS rofl&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/RealtekSecretDecoderRing.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/RealtekSecretDecoderRing.png?fit=524%2C523&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1368\" title=\"RealtekSecretDecoderRing\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/RealtekSecretDecoderRing.png?resize=524%2C523\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/RealtekSecretDecoderRing.png?w=524&amp;ssl=1 524w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/RealtekSecretDecoderRing.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/RealtekSecretDecoderRing.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Realtek TOP SECRET CLASSIFIED DRIVER ACCESS rofl<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Realtek audio is used in almost every cheap-assed mobo these days, and they HIDE THE DEVICE that lets you capture sound! Wow, this is apparently done to PREVENT COPYRIGHT ABUSE, when will the world get a grip? Anyway, here&#8217;s what you do: Right-click the tray sound icon, and select Recording Devices&#8230; SUPER TOP SECRET TIP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks-tips-tools","category-windows-projects","category-chatter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-m3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}