Once Again, Something That Should Be Basic is a Giant Pain

[the_gneech]

Hoookay, so apparently there's no easy way to feed sounds playing on your computer into a Skype call. Or if there is, I can't find it.

I've found ads for plug-ins c. 2007, but the websites they point to are either long-dead, or the plug-in is "A full professional enterprise suite! Only a bazillion bucks."

Dude. I want to hit a play button and stream a sound effect at the people I'm Skypin' with. It's all data. It should know how to do this right out of the box.

That's the thing that drives me most nuts about the internet generally. It's all data. It should all be able to talk to each other as part of its basic existence.

Harumph.

-The Gneech

Comments

[katayamma.livejournal.com]

If you're using Vista or 7, you can't do it with 2 different applications. The DMCA Audio controls prevent more than one media device from accessing the sound streams at the same time.

If you can duel-boot to XP, that OS will allow as many apps as you want access the same audio input/out streams at the same time.

Sorry.

[delphinios.livejournal.com]

How does that work? I can record to two applications at the same time, and firefox and winamp can both play music at the same time. I just tested this. Also, playing music via winamp and recording audio at the same time works, too. Could you elaborate?

[katayamma.livejournal.com]

While multiple programs can stream audio to the speakers, they can't access the audio stream of another program.

If you look at the old XP audio control panel for record, you'll see that you used to be able to record from the audio output stream. That functionality is no longer in Vista/7 due to DMCA compliance in order to prevent people from pirating music.

Worked well, no? All that music pirating has pretty much gone away, wouldn't you say? :P