Audacity Forum

Gale wrote: If we remove the feature it will be wrapped in an "experimental" define and the define commented out in src/Experimental.h. This means that Audio Cache will not be in releases but anyone building Audacity will be able to uncomment the define and so make the Audio Cache checkbox appear in...

The good news is my Win7 system is back to repeatable crashes. I have not made any changes or installed any sw. Sorry but I cannot give any pointers as to what may be happening. Almost no problems have been experienced with Audacity during LP ripping with the audio cache disabled apart from one day ...

But I think we can agree that PGA's formula or the one at http://tinyurl.com/cb7tc3k will produce the result of 0.549 MB per second for 24x96 stereo capture, *when Audacity writes to disk*, correct? You can verify this by turning off audio cache and looking in the temporary folder. Correct: When I w...

Agreed and thanks

PGA wrote: Sample rate x number of seconds x sample format x number of channels = total number of bits Total number of bits / 8 = total number of bytes Total number of bytes /1024 = total number of KBytes Total number of KBytes / 1024 = total number of MBytes So, if recording CD quality (Sample rate...

otwo_pipes wrote:One minute of capture at 24/96 uses 96k words per second or 96*4*60 bytes per minute i.e about 23MB per minute. Okay, thank you for the correction as I forgot the the 2 channels for stereo, and other points, when I wrote this but my spreadsheet was correct :) betwixt us we may get t...

@Gale: Thus assuming Audacity was actually writing data, then the greater the sample rate and bit depth, the sooner each directory will be filled and the next one populated. @2pipes: At the moment I do NOT agree that bit depth alters the rate of directory writes but please remember, my results of l...

@Gale Thanks for your efforts. No problems, it is my pleasure. More to the point, it is good to keep my hand in now I am retired :) However I can tell you that each dXX directory inside the eXX directory is written to until the d directory contains 256 .au files, then the next "d" directory in the s...

@Gale This evening I have obtined interesting results and I can now make basic predictions of when Audacity will crash as I alter the sample-rate / bit-depth. I have not been able to capture enough data to make significant predictions of crashes as I vary the audio cache memory depth but at least I ...

@Steve Agreed re the manual and the RAM issue. In my electronics days I had a reputation (good I might add) at breaking sw systems. I was so adept at breaking sw systems I was often tasked to test the systems before release to customers. This testing was undertaken on my own as my style is a little ...