On screen audio capture recording with Audacity?

Question

The tutorial shows a music video playing on youtube and simutanously the record button on audacity is then pressed to start recording just the audio from the music video on youtube, but it dosent work when i try, I'm just woundering in the tutorial if its been recorded from a microphone but not actually recorded from on screen.

Is it possible to record on screen audio with audacity

Answer 1

If you just want to save the audio from the YouTube video, Audacity is nice. Just select the option to record the audio from computer.

And if you would like to record the video, there are the steps works in downloading FLV files on Internet:
1. Open up Explorer, click tools>internet options. Under Temporary Internet Files click delete. The reason you're doing this is to clean out the folder so it will be much easier to find and save the FLV files being downloaded from the website.
2. Once you cleared out that folder, go to the website and play the video you want to save.
Important note: play the entire video. If you play and stop or go to another page the entire video will not be saved to your "Temporary Internet Files" folder.
3. Now open your "Temporary Internet Files" folder
(usually: C:\Documents and Settings\User 2\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files) there should be a bunch of files
4. With the "Temporary Internet Files" folder  open, perform a search for .flv files- a short list or long list is going to appear depending on what is in your cache.
5. Click on the files to select which one to save and convert.
6. Once you know what FLV file to save it now needs to be converted so it can be played in Windows Media Player. Or you can paly it in a FLV player.

Well, if you want to make it easier, some tools like YouTube Downloader could be helpful.
http://www.download-streaming-video.com/#107