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I've read all over on the internet but none of the solutions help me. I use Stereo Mix to send sounds over MSN using the record button as well as using the mic. The mic works fine in 7 and stereo mix used to work in windowsxp and vista but now in windows 7 on the same machine (Acer 4420 notebook) there is no stereo mix. I go into the sound control panel then right click and say
Show disabled devices
Show disconnected devices
and all that shows up is the monitor microphone, the microphone sound card jack and line-in. I need Stereo Mix to work in Windows 7.
I've written for help on the microsoft answers board twice now and they ignored me, I've asked on yahoo answers, they ignored me. I even wrote to realtek and they have ignored me as well twice now, I will be contacting the better business bureau to complain about customer service if I cannot reach a solution. I have been trying to find a solution for a month now!
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I have fixed the stereo problem.I went back to H/P and asked them to fix it. and they updated the bios and updated the audio driver.Lokks like it's an older driver but it works fine and I have my stero back.The update for the bios is the fix,along with update driver.
Hi Epic_Geek,
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Actually there is a "free" solution to this problem. Go to CNET and search for "Stereo Mix Plus". It worked on my Gateway and my Dell laptops under Windows 7. Take that recording industry :)
is this the same problem one might have if the music sounds fine but the singers sound like donald duck
The reeeally simple "hardware Hack" to all of you who dont want to install stuff...
Buy a short stereo mini-jack - to - stereo mini jack (male in both ends) cable (guess it costs less than 10 dollars in a hifi store etc.) then just stick the cable into the headphones out jack and into the microphone in jack, basically throwing the sound back from your headphone output and into the pc again. Now you can choose the line in or mic input as recording device, and bingo! You can record sound from the internet etc. And YES the signal gets converted from digital to analog to digital again, so there is a bit of degrade, but it's a simple solution, if youre not a compression-degradation nerd.
Best,
Jesper
