How can I record system sounds (apps) in Audacity?

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Published on 2010-02-20T03:37:27Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 13:13 UTC
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Or another similar program? All I want to do is record the sounds coming from say firefox, or any other app, for use as samples in music. I need to do this in both windows and linux (ubuntu 9.10).

I have looked through the preferences of audacity but didn't find anything that let me select the system sound. Perhaps I overlooked it, because I was able to do this with earlier versions of audacity.

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