Listen an audio file in a Skype conversation

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In a Skype conversation I'd like that the other person could hear an audio file (with enough quality to be understood).

I have a Real Player file (.ram) and I want to play it, pause it , forward it and I want that the other person in the conversation can hear what I'm also hearing (it's for teaching purposes). While I'm playing the audio file is not neccessary that the other person can hear my voice through the microphone (though it would be great too).

I've tried to set in the Audio Settings the microphone as "RealTek Digital Input" instead of the microphone, but trying against the Test Service without success.

How can I do that (without a pay-per-use software)? How can I change the microphone to be set as the audio from my speakers?

Best Answer

You have to follow this article and enable "Stereo Mix" and set it as Microphone in Skype Audio settings.
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I found a way to do this with Virtual Audio Cable and 1 Skype open.

Open VAC Control Panel and make 2 lines
Open 4 Audio Repeater(MME)s
Set the First to Wave In: Line 1 and Wave Out: Speakers or primary output device
Set the Second to Wave In: Primary Microphone and Wave Out: Line 1
Set the Third to Wave In: Primary Microhone and Wave Out: Line 2
Set the Fourth to Wave In: Line 1 and Wave Out: Line 2

Once this is done set Line 1 as your default playback device in Windows and as Line 2 as your default recording device .

Make sure when you change your Skype settings to also have Line 2 as your microphone and your primary output device as the speakers.

This will make it so both you and your caller can hear any audio that comes from your computer (youtube, spotify, pandora, etc.). You can still talk and you won't hear yourself in an echo and neither will the party on the skype call.

Windows – Free solution to create a virtual sound device in Windows? (Skype speakers both virtual and real)

I think you're trying to over complicate things. I believe the problem you're trying to solve here is to record Skype conversations. To do that, you need:

Audio stream from your sound card
Audio stream from your notebook's mic (or external mic)
Video stream of the chat session

You can get 3 by using any screen recording software. I prefer Debut by NCH Software.

For 1 and 2 all you have to do is press Win + R and enter:

control /name Microsoft.Sound

Press return. Now you should see the Sound Properties window. Switch to the "Recording" tab. Right click anywhere in the white space and select "Show Disabled Devices"

Show disabled devices

Right click on "Stereo Mix" and select "Enable". That will allow an audio recording software like Audacity to record audio directly from the sound card so you'll be able to record sound coming out of your computer's speakers.

Enable Stereo Mix

Double click on Stereo Mix and switch to the "Levels" tab and increase it to 100.

Stereo Mix level 100

Click OK and double click on "Microphone" and switch to the "Listen" tab and check the box that says "Listen to this device" and select your computer's speakers as the playback device.

Microphone playback device

Download, install and start Audacity and under Edit -> Preferences:Devices, choose "Stereo Mix" as the recording device.

Audacity recording source

That's it. Start recording audio. Switch to Debut. Start recording video. Switch to Skype. Place the call. Finish the call. Merge audio and video using FFMPEG after editing.

If you still can't manage to get this to work, you might want to check out this article.

Multitrack Recording

If you'd like to record the audio stream from the computer and the audio stream from the microphone into separate individual tracks, you can use MixPad by NCH Software or any DAW that supports multi-track recording. I've confirmed that n-Track 7 works too. However, n-Track isn't free. If you use MixPad, make sure you download the free version for non-commercial use.

To record both audio streams separately, make sure you have unchecked the box for "Listen to this device" under the "Listen" tab in Microphone Properties.

Now start MixPad, and enable recording from the first and second tracks. (i.e. "Untitled Track 1" and "Untitled Track 2"). You can do that by clicking the small, grey record button beneath each track.

Enable recording from tracks 1 and 2

Now click on the little wrench icon for track 2 and make sure that its recording device is set to "Stereo Mix".

Audio track settings icon Set recording device to "Stereo Mix"

Do the same thing for track 1, but make sure its recording device is set to "Microphone"

Set recording device to "Microphone"

Now start recording by hitting the F5 key or by clicking Record Button

Exporting Individual Tracks in MixPad

There are two ways you could do this. You could select the track you want to export by clicking on it. Now switch to the "Mixing" tab and click "Export Clip". Select the audio format, bitrate and output path and hit "Export".

Export audio track

The other way to do it, is to click on "Clip Manager" under the "Tools" tab. Then right click on the clip you want to export and select "Export Clip as..." in the context menu. Select output format, audio bitrate, output path and hit "Export".

Clip Manager

Export audio clip

Then, to have a single audio file with a separate channel for each track (considering the Skype recording aspect), add them into an Audacity project and export them into one audio file after enabling 'custom mix' option:

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For more details on the options to use with Skype (including a solution without involving Stereo Mix), see also this complementary answer.