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record system sounds in powerpoint

 https://superuser.com/a/1133762 After enabling stereo mix and setting it as the source - default and app specific - I was still not picking up system sound on the PP recording.  I had to point the output to speakers, which seemed to make the difference, and then plug headphones directly into the machine rather than through the USB adaptor which seemed to re-brand them as a Jabra device. 

Youtube audio renderer

This worked for me (Windows 10) - Win+R - devmgmt.msc - find the sound list - right-click the device, disable - right-click the device, enable - refresh YT tab

changing rtrio to boot sonic pi

 after installing sonic pi, I try to run it, get error: `You don't appear to have a sane system configuration.` lol. yeah probably.  `It is very likely that you encounter xruns.` no idea what that means. anyway, I take the advice and add  `  @audio          -       rtprio          99` to `/etc/security/limits.conf` I note it here beccause I _suspect_ it's going to stop me pushing my volume levels over 100, which will probably baffle and anger me down the line. update:  as per my usual reckless approach, I've installed realtime-priveleges package and added my username to the realtime group. no diff that "sane system" and "realtime scheduling" message comes from jackd. running "jackd -d backend --help" shows it in the terminal. Now I'm thinking it's to do with pulsaudio settings maybe. did all this: https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/issues/2341#issuecomment-628016039 which feels dumb, because these are big packages I'm adding a

youtube-dl

Audio only: youtube-dl -f 'bestaudio[ext=m4a]' 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA2iq5IspLI&ab&ab_channel=StoryTeller'