I wanted to make a recording for a good friend going through tough times. Now, keep in mind-I suck w/technology. I figured out how to record, then lost it and couldn’t find by name.I find it in the Sound Recorder App, tried to follow your instructions, but have no Charms Bar, the bar I can bring up is for trimming, deleting, and renaming only? Can anyone help me out? Thanks, Sheila
I want to record some live music from radio
but using windows 8.1 sound recorder , quality not that great , because microphone picks up background sound from room , plus im assuming the recording is made from my laptop speaker being picked up by my built in microphone , so again quality loss
surely there must be a way of recording sound online without using the built in microphone?
Good day, I’m programming my own backing tracks with midi, when done I need to record it as a wave file. Obviously I can not use the microphone for this. The system’s recording poperties do not give me an option to record from another internal source and soundcard on my Lenovo Windows 8.1 laptop. So it’s not from an external source. Can somebody please assit me?
My Sound Recorder recordings won’t share in Dropbox and are too long for email attachments. In the meantime they are eating up free space on my Surface. What do I do?
What a dogs dinner Windows 8 (& 8.1) has been for desk top PC business users.
I’ve had it well over a year now & I still hate W8 with a passion compared to XP professional. Now I find I cannot record audio in MP3 format using (Windows) sound recorder. I won’t even touch the dodgy primary school colour box apps (exception being publisher & word as cannot find any other way of accessing them). I hope some people at Microsoft have fallen on their swords over this W8 abortion….I seriously dread with total fear & trepidation Windows 10 currently being peddled at me.
Is there a way that I can mute the audio coming out of the speakers or headphones (when connected) while my mic is active? I’m hearing feedback because I have the audio looping that way. I can’t use this to record now because its too distracting. Thanks!
It’s a nightmare! Can’t control the extension it is being saved in and it is sent as a fixed file type which is not compatable with it’s destination use and there is no file manager. A mess, far to inflexible. No saved location either.
I said no the first time I tried to use sound recorder I need to access permission but have no ideal where to go to say yes this time to allow permission to microphone
Whenever I try to “share” an audio file by emailing it, all I get is a message that says, “There was a problem sharing this.” So what gives? I want to use these five audio files as a voice over for a video I’m making for work. They are from 5 to 12 seconds long. So what do I do now? Is Sound Recorder just another “junk” app?
I just recently bought a Dell Inspiron N2830 laptop with a pre- installed Windows 8.1. I tried using the sound recorder app but whenever I pressed on stop and start looking for my recording, I can’t find the recording list anywhere. I can’t find anything when I put my mouse over any corner of the screen. Was my recording saved or not? How can I find the recording list and play back some recordings?
Did you make sure your microphone was enabled during recording? If you have never started the Sound Recorder app before, it may ask you for permission to use your microphone. Click or tap Allow to enable recording when you first start the app.
Also check your microphone settings in Windows, it might be disabled.
Let us know if you’ve solved the problem and thanks for reading us!
I’m having the same problem. I’ve checked all the settings to make sure my microphone is on and working, and updated the drivers for the built-in mic, and it still doesn’t work. Also, in the sound control panel under “Recording”, my microphone is shown as the default, and appears to be working properly, with the green indicator bar registering accordingly if I start making noise.
Any suggestions? It’s a brand new Lenovo u430p notebook running Windows 8.1 with a built in Realtek High Definition Audio microphone.
Sound recorder Window 8.1–
I was unable to hear sound, during play back.
The indicator moved along, showing it is playing,
but no sound from the speakers.
speaker control was on loud and enabled.
Hi dde,
If you cannot record audio,plz try this app http://www.apowersoft.com/free-audio-recorder-online There’s no need to do lots of preparations. All you need to do is to run this app on your browser, and forward to “Audio Input” and select “System sound”. Then click the “Record” button, you can start your recording already!
20 Responses to “How to Record Audio with the Sound Recorder App in Windows 8.1”
Thanks for info.
How do you save a recording to a USB drive
I wanted to make a recording for a good friend going through tough times. Now, keep in mind-I suck w/technology. I figured out how to record, then lost it and couldn’t find by name.I find it in the Sound Recorder App, tried to follow your instructions, but have no Charms Bar, the bar I can bring up is for trimming, deleting, and renaming only? Can anyone help me out? Thanks, Sheila
I want to record some live music from radio
but using windows 8.1 sound recorder , quality not that great , because microphone picks up background sound from room , plus im assuming the recording is made from my laptop speaker being picked up by my built in microphone , so again quality loss
surely there must be a way of recording sound online without using the built in microphone?
Good day, I’m programming my own backing tracks with midi, when done I need to record it as a wave file. Obviously I can not use the microphone for this. The system’s recording poperties do not give me an option to record from another internal source and soundcard on my Lenovo Windows 8.1 laptop. So it’s not from an external source. Can somebody please assit me?
My Sound Recorder recordings won’t share in Dropbox and are too long for email attachments. In the meantime they are eating up free space on my Surface. What do I do?
What a dogs dinner Windows 8 (& 8.1) has been for desk top PC business users.
I’ve had it well over a year now & I still hate W8 with a passion compared to XP professional. Now I find I cannot record audio in MP3 format using (Windows) sound recorder. I won’t even touch the dodgy primary school colour box apps (exception being publisher & word as cannot find any other way of accessing them). I hope some people at Microsoft have fallen on their swords over this W8 abortion….I seriously dread with total fear & trepidation Windows 10 currently being peddled at me.
Is there a way that I can mute the audio coming out of the speakers or headphones (when connected) while my mic is active? I’m hearing feedback because I have the audio looping that way. I can’t use this to record now because its too distracting. Thanks!
Is there a way to record audio on my Windows 8.1 computer directly from web audio?
It’s a nightmare! Can’t control the extension it is being saved in and it is sent as a fixed file type which is not compatable with it’s destination use and there is no file manager. A mess, far to inflexible. No saved location either.
I said no the first time I tried to use sound recorder I need to access permission but have no ideal where to go to say yes this time to allow permission to microphone
Go to “Search” and type “microphone privacy”.
Then select “Microphone” and turn back on the microphone on Sound Recorder.
Whenever I try to “share” an audio file by emailing it, all I get is a message that says, “There was a problem sharing this.” So what gives? I want to use these five audio files as a voice over for a video I’m making for work. They are from 5 to 12 seconds long. So what do I do now? Is Sound Recorder just another “junk” app?
Same problem here. Let me know if you’ve solved it.
I am being told that my recording file cannot be emailed because it is too large. I cannot trim it because it is a legal record. Suggestions?
Perform it naked as an interpretive dance and upload it to YouTube.
I just recently bought a Dell Inspiron N2830 laptop with a pre- installed Windows 8.1. I tried using the sound recorder app but whenever I pressed on stop and start looking for my recording, I can’t find the recording list anywhere. I can’t find anything when I put my mouse over any corner of the screen. Was my recording saved or not? How can I find the recording list and play back some recordings?
Hi dde,
Did you make sure your microphone was enabled during recording? If you have never started the Sound Recorder app before, it may ask you for permission to use your microphone. Click or tap Allow to enable recording when you first start the app.
Also check your microphone settings in Windows, it might be disabled.
Let us know if you’ve solved the problem and thanks for reading us!
Vlad
I’m having the same problem. I’ve checked all the settings to make sure my microphone is on and working, and updated the drivers for the built-in mic, and it still doesn’t work. Also, in the sound control panel under “Recording”, my microphone is shown as the default, and appears to be working properly, with the green indicator bar registering accordingly if I start making noise.
Any suggestions? It’s a brand new Lenovo u430p notebook running Windows 8.1 with a built in Realtek High Definition Audio microphone.
Sound recorder Window 8.1–
I was unable to hear sound, during play back.
The indicator moved along, showing it is playing,
but no sound from the speakers.
speaker control was on loud and enabled.
Hi dde,
If you cannot record audio,plz try this app http://www.apowersoft.com/free-audio-recorder-online There’s no need to do lots of preparations. All you need to do is to run this app on your browser, and forward to “Audio Input” and select “System sound”. Then click the “Record” button, you can start your recording already!