[Lowfer] A Question to Windows-7 users

[David L. Wilson]

> actually the sound driver API changes were made in Vista; the "content
> provider industry" (RIAA, MPAA, etc) demanded an OS that would prevent
> "ripping", that is copying their content.   this kind of thing only
> hurts honest people.
> 
> I think what you want is now called a "virtual audio cable". search for
that, a
> number of free ones are available.

I have used several of these (free and paid, including VAC).  Free VB Cable
is definitely the best and could do things the paid software that some use
could not.

http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/ 

If you are doing crazy things like connecting speaker outputs to mic inputs
on PC's, you should definitely being using the above instead.   It has
allowed me to do things I could not otherwise do for free,