Rolo - thank you for that suggestion. However when I do that I find
that Audacity isn't picking up any audio at all. It needs to capture
the input/output from the sound card not the mic. Turning the mic off
means that nothing is captured at all. I'm begining to think that there
is something wrong with the sound card. Cheers - Chris B.

Rolo Tomassi wrote:

SB wrote:
I'm trying to capture streaming audio from Radio 7. I have a Toshiba
Qosmio with sound card. it has Windows XP MCE. I'm using Audacity but
the only input options are Line In / Mixed / Mic. Unfortunately when I
try and record the audio stream this is played through the built-in
speakers, and the sound is then picked up by the in-built mic. Whe
played back the recording has extraneous noises and echoes on it -
from the mic. What I need is for Audacity to take the input direct
from the sound card. But I can't work out how to do this. Please can
someone help. Many thanks - SB.

Go into your windows sound panel, click on advanced, options,properties,
Recording and set the microphone slider to zero.

HTH

Rolo