Audacity Forum

"audio to buffer" field. What is this set to? 100ms And setting it to 500ms doesn't change anything. I went up to 10.000ms and tried 1.000, 2.000 and 5.000ms without preventing the gaps. The only thing that changed was the gap length. The gaps alternate from big to small to big ... gaps. How does 1...

Now that I know how to work around this, I tried to record whole songs and found s.th. else! When recording through SPDIF-in or line-in after six seconds and then every 5,4 seconds there is a gap in audio. It is reproducable and CPU-usage or harddisk access does not rise at this points. In most trie...

The quick mix does reduce the quality, but you can skip it by just setting the project rate to be 44100Hz instead (the track rate and the project rate then match, no need to do quick mix).

Thanks a lot, that works, much easier than I thought!

* If you leave autoscroll turned on at 10 seconds zoom, but minimise audacity, does it do it? It doesn't crash as long as minimized (recorded for about 2min), but directly after coming up, it crashes again. * If you do something that does a load of disk accesses, like copying a pile of files, whils...

To test this, you can uncheck the "Autoscroll whilst playing" option on the Interface tab of the preferences. This will stop audacity scrolling automatically when the cursor reaches the right hand side of the screen. If I'm right, then at 10 sec zoom, you should be able to keep recording whilst the...

Reading this, I see you know much more about the inside of this little black box than me. Maybe it was a rhetorical question, but after closing down all processes that do not belong to the system, there are 27 left (which I know all). What I know about the soundcard is the name: NVIDIA GeForce4 420 ...

Well, sincerely I think it is not my computer, I have 512MB Ram, 2GHz, I think this should be enough!? Anyway, before finding out about the zoom out, I tried recording after closing down all unnecessary tasks, even anti-virus, firewall and this stuff. Also pulled out the network cable, without chang...

No, this does not change anything, but I found the cause by chance. When recording I first hit pause and then record. If I once hit zoom out at this point (before starting to record), it does not crash anymore! So I started to play with it to see if it is reproducable. If I zoom in before I start re...

When you change the track sample rate using the "Set Rate" command, all you do is change the information in the project on what sample rate to play the data at. (...) This has no effect on the sound quality because the data hasn't been modified. Ok, when I use the "Set Rate" command, I do not alter...

Well, I was wondering if there is a quality loss by downsampling in this way!? I know normally there is, but in this case it is a bit weird because of the way I am recording (see Topic: "records from optical-in too fast"). What I mean is, I am recording from a 44,1 kHz-source. But my soundcard deliv...