Audacity Forum

Update So I tried recording using the WASAPI device. All is well! I guess there is some kind of issue with my Stereo Mix. If I knew about WASAPI going in, I would have never even bothered installing my audio driver to enable WASAPI. Thanks a lot for your help, I honestly wasn't even familiar with th...

I have not tried the WASAPI method, and I am Googling to try and figure out how to do that. Any suggestions? Just a little down this page in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html Cool. I actually edited my post since I found the answer...

There are no apparent silences in the waveform (where I looked) but it sounds like, repeatedly, some of the digital samples are not getting written. I think you will probably need to go through everything here http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Managing_Computer_Resources_and_Drivers eliminating pos...

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Here is the file:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/654 ... sample.wav

The stream sounds great in the web streamer, but for some reason something is happening with Audacity where it is getting garbled information.

My recordings are saved to the default directory on the C drive, which is on my SSD.

There are no dropouts, it's just garbled. I can upload a sample.

If the issue occurs at a particular time of day (or night), check to see if your computer has any tasks scheduled to run at that time. You could also try defragmenting your hard drive (that can take a while, so you will probably want to leave that running overnight). I'll take a look. I generally h...

Just to add to this: I am using Windows 8.1 64 Bit, and Audacity 2.0.5. I see they just released a new version, I will try upgrading to that.

Hi all I record long international radio streams overnight to listen to later in the car. Lately, Audacity has been giving me garbled data after the 6 hours recording mark. My recordings are usually about 8-9 hours, but for some reason now it's been getting corrupted after 6 hours. My PC Specs are: ...