by Versilaryan » 21 Jan 2012 16:25
Assuming you're running Windows:
Find the sound/volume icon in the lower-right, by the clock. Right-click it and press "Playback Devices" or something similar to it.
If you aren't there already, find the tab where all your speakers are listed.
Right-click anywhere in the window and click "Show disabled devices".
See if you have "Stereo Mix" or "What U Hear" or something like that there. That's the driver that will let you record the sounds coming from your computer. All you have to do is go to Audacity, select your self-recording driver as your microphone, and record.
If you don't have that, then you need to buy a 1/8" to 1/8" cable. It's the same cable that lets you plug your iPod into some stereos or in the car or something. Anyways, plug one end of that cable into the microphone plug and another end into the headphones plug. Then record from your standard computer microphone. What this will do is use your headphone jack as a "microphone", thereby recording sounds you hear on your computer.
If you own a Mac or run Linux or something, I'm not sure if there's an easier way, but if all else fails, that cable connecting thing should work.