On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 21:36:53 +0000 (UTC), Nicodemus wrote:
For me it says ALSA, on a Linux Mint system.
It is a MBoard sound card.
Maybe it has more to do windows10 by default making it difficult to use
Audacity.
I think I agree with you that two things made it harder for me
1. The later Windows 10 versions turn off the ADC audio access by default
2. Not a single tutorial mentioned that this was happening
Luckily, the error message was seen by many others in the past
o So googling for the error helped me solve the problem
The good news is that by reporting that, I saved others the hassle.
o The bad news is I'm not sure how useful this capability is.
I mean, for YouTube, it's far easier to download the audio separately:
o youtube-dl.exe -f 140
https://youtu.be/HotLmqYFKKg
Where this capability of Audacity to convert streaming audio to an MP3 file
may come in handy might be for _other_ streaming audio needs, outside of
YouTube (since YouTube already has its very own well-honed downloader).
What _other_ uses (than YouTube) do folks see for this Audacity capability?