[RWP] Recording Streaming Audio with Reaper solved

[Indigo]

Actually, Reaper is no problem as a streaming audio recorder, 
wonderfully full of options and easy to use.
You just need to turn on the stereo mix, sometimes called What You Hear; 
in Control Panel, Sounds; so that Reaper hears it.
Navigate to the device you want to use,; in my case it is the RealTech 
HD Speakers.
Go to recording tab, arrow down and you get recording from microphone, 
from line in, and at the bottom of my list is Stereo Mix, which was 
disabled.
I right clicked it and clicked enter on the top option in the list, 
which is enable.
Then clicked on OK and went back to Reaper.
I set up a track, armed it; record mode input; but no monitoring on this 
track, or maybe you'd get run away feedback.
I set 16 bit 44.1K until I tried 24 bit, which sounds so much better, 
and chose Wave Out as the driver, Direct Sound also works but is such a 
grainy sounding driver.
I don't think the RealTech's support asio.

In many recent RealTech built in chips you can record 24 bit 96k, but 
that's overkill for most YouTube sound.
After arming the track; I did the ctrl+up arrow 3 spaces fix; to unlock 
the applications key menu;  then pressed applications key for the record 
options menu, up arrowed to Stereo Recording, arrowed right for left and 
right outputs and pressed enter.
Then I pressed R to begin recording.

Then, to go back to the almost waiting YouTube, I just pressed alt+tab.
I pasted in the URL of the desired YouTube into the Location edit field; 
then pressed enter and quickly held down the ctrl key to prevent 
screenreader speech from getting into the beginning of the recording.
After the end of the video track, I alt+tab back to Reaper and press the 
spacebar to stop recording, rename the recorded track; and it's 
captured; in whatever depth of quality wanted.

This is the basic procedure that should work for built in chips or any 
audio interface.
If you have a good third-party audio interface, you may get a different 
method to let Reaper hear the same thing you hear when you play YouTubes 
or internet radio; look in control panel; sound, choose your audio 
device, find the recording tab and see what's shown there; it might be 
very similar to what's shown for RealTech.

GoodBye, Total Recorder; which I never liked, also those those others 
that only save in MP3, you can record and save in wav, flac, ogg in 
really tiny footprint for spoken material in Reaper, lowest  or highest 
quality; 24 bit, 96k if you want.
Also, don't miss the quality of recording options in Reaper's 
options/preferences/recording, where you can choose good, better and 
bestquality.
With the huge latency of these RealTech chips you can be recording 185ms 
behind what you are hearing as you record, which doesn't cause problems, 
but so don't be too quick to return to Reaper and stop recording, or I 
guess you might chop off the end of the recording.

Also, since you are recording what you hear, if you have a multi media 
qwerty keyboard with volume buttons you can use those to set your 
recording volume for Reaper.

Indi