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It looks like I found a solution, in Preferences > Recording > Software Playthrough of Input. I had it checked so I unchecked it, recorded for two hours and NO DROPOUTS. Woohoo! I hope it was that simple and it continues to work for me and possibly others. Thanks for everyone's help.

and 72 minutes? My guess is that some other application is hitting the CPU hard every 24 minutes. Check what applications / processes are running. Thanks, Steve, I'll have a look. I watched to see if anything was hitting the CPU every 24 minutes and nothing. I had it running for over an hour to see...

kozikowski wrote:Restart the machine and make sure nothing else starts.

If you don't absolutely need the network connection, turn it off. Kill the WiFi if you have it running.

Thanks, Koz, I'll try that, as well.

steve wrote:and 72 minutes?
My guess is that some other application is hitting the CPU hard every 24 minutes. Check what applications / processes are running.

Thanks, Steve, I'll have a look.

The dropout just messes with the word if there is one. Sometimes I'm lucky enough to have the dropout at a pause in the voice. The sample should have said "You turn off the music" you see the "turn" is where the dropout is. Thank you.

I'm using audacity 2.2.2; Win 10; I'm recording an hour long podcast and each recording has a dropout at 24 and 48 minutes every time. I've searched this forum and the FAQ's and followed every "solution" to no avail. It started suddenly with an older version 2.0.6 out of the blue so I updated to 2.2...