Is there a way to do this? I have a sound recorder set up to record some radio shows coming down a stream, but I don't want my computer to just start blaring the streams and surprise people... including myself.

I've already tested it, and there's no problem recording internally while the sound card is muted (obviously), so I just need to tell the computer when to be muted and when to come back to unmuted state again.

Anyone know of any solutions? I've googled, but I can't find what i'm looking for. surely this exists somewhere

9/26/2005 3:12:06 PM

turn off your speakers when you are away from your computer.

9/26/2005 3:15:29 PM

ok, that's cute, but obviously that's not what i'm looking for. you can forget to turn off your speakers, and not only that, but i'm quite forgetful.

anyway I found a solution already.
http://www.grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm

Quote :

"What the heck is Wizmo? Wizmo is an extremely useful "Windows Gizmo" I created when I could not find anything else on the Net to do similar jobs. Wizmo is a multi-purpose, miscellaneous Windows function, "catch all" with a growing list of uncommon but useful features and capabilities. Wizmo is present on every one of my Windows machines. I use it many times per day and I have grown to rely upon it so much that, if it didn't already exist, I would drop everything and write it again. It is that useful."

"wizmo mute=1" does just what I need.

9/26/2005 3:19:30 PM

If you just set mute on your volume control it should still record sound from either your sound card or any audio programs using your sound card.

[Edited on September 27, 2005 at 12:12 AM. Reason : blach]

9/27/2005 12:11:10 AM

yeah, i know. that's exactly what I already said. I knew it would do that, but I don't want my computer to be constantly muted, and I wanted it to be done automatically for me, because otherwise I'll forget to do it myself

Quote :

"I've already tested it, and there's no problem recording internally while the sound card is muted (obviously), so I just need to tell the computer when to be muted and when to come back to unmuted state again."

thanks

9/27/2005 10:55:24 AM

You could use Macro Express to set a macro to do it at specific times.

9/27/2005 2:07:06 PM