XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows   
   From: arlen_holder@newmachines.com   
      
   On Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:45:56 -0500, Paul wrote:   
      
   > Microsoft uses terminology to suit the high-runner application.   
      
   I googled what "high runner" meant, but found nothing; so I assume you mean   
   "high end" applications, such as those which might require the sound card.   
      
   > The permission is more likely to be "use the ADC on the HDAudio",   
   > meaning Mic_In, Line_In, Stereo_Mix. All of those are multiplexer   
   > inputs feeding a stereo ADC on the HDaudio chip.   
      
   That is a good explanation, which is that Microsoft uses the term   
   "microphone" to mean the audio ADC input on the sound card.   
      
   > They could refine their permission to any degree they want,   
   > but there aren't any other choices than "Microphone", and the   
   > only way to make one control "fit" is if the control actually   
   > owns the ADC instead. If Microsoft said "permission to use the ADC",   
   > nobody is going to know what that is.   
      
   I noticed that in some tutorials they mentioned that the "onboard"   
   circuitry wouldn't allow Audacity to capture the streaming audio, while in   
   others they didn't mention that complication.   
      
   Since I have both onboard and the Nvidia GeForce graphics card, I wasn't   
   sure which ADC is being used, where I 'think' I'm using the on-board ADC   
   because the only sound jacks 1/8th-inch photo plugs are on the motherboard   
   (the Nvidia GeForce 210 has digital output but no stereo jacks).   
      
   In summary, I'm not sure how useful converting a YouTube audio to MP3 is   
   (using Audacity) since it can be more easily downloaded as an M4A with   
   youtubedl.exe; but there "might" be a use (somehow) of Audacity being able   
   to save streaming audio from other applications (e.g., Zoom, WebRTC,   
   whatever).   
   --   
   It's nice to have Audacity in our arsenal but I'm not sure how useful it is   
   to capture streaming audio since we likely could capture it anyway.   
      
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