Audacity Forum

<<<USB Hub>>> That's actually a pretty good bet. Trying to run audio equipment from the battery power in the USB connection is sometimes less than successful. The 5 volt supply from the computer can be soft (not at 5 volts) or it can be noisy. I had a USB device once that let me hear each time the h...

<<<3. work for a few minutes of recording and then the sound distorts badly.>>> That's the phrase that pays. Once a USB turntable does that, it will probably never work as a digital capture. Since you have a Mac, you can peel off the troublesome USB connection and go analog. USB Turntable--Symptoms ...

<<<Hard drives less than 30% filled.>>>

Cool. so that's probably not it. How about all the others?

Koz

<<<Do I make changes such as splitting into separate tracks BEFORE I save the capture to a WAV file?>>> Capture and Export To WAV. Don't mess with it, don't add things, don't normalize, don't do anything. Now that you have your raw capture safe (and if it's a critical capture, copy that wav file to ...

This has come up before, with limited success. Most microphones will not respond to sound up that high because it is in the financial interests of the makers to prevent them from doing so. Any time a microphone responds to "sound" that you can't hear, there are problems, so this response t...

<<<Can anyone tell me if the tascam FW1082 functionality is supported by audacity?>>> I sincerely doubt it. Audacity is a pretty simple audio production program with its own tool set. We regularly run into problems where somebody will install a plug-in that needs interaction with the host sound prog...

I have to ask. How full are your hard drives?
Koz

<<<Could not recover any of the files recorded during the 20 minutes before it error off.>>> Yes. That's normal. It would get our attention if you could recover them after a crash. When Audacity goes toes up, it sets off a small, intimate thermonuclear device in the middle of the project. Nobody has...

<<<within the etiquette of this Forum. >>>

I keep within the etiquette of the forum.

Now how about the original post? Both signs should be ignored.

Koz

<<<Is anyone else having this problem?>>>

I'm going with no.

Do you get an error message when it fails?

Are you totally sure you got the right Audacity?

<<<each time I try to load the program >>>

Load it or run it?

Koz