Audacity Forum

Just a brief follow up - The three and a half day recording session went perfectly. Both Audacity and my computer performed flawlessly....the human operator though had a little trouble staying awake, but that's a story for another time. Not a single glitch, pop, or malfunction from Audacity. Thank y...

Thank you Steve, you have greatly reduced my concerns. I've been prepping my computer and trying to get everything set for the least amount of issues. Hopefully the most difficult problem will be trying to stay awake for the whole thing (with only short cat-naps in between the 3 days) Thanks again e...

Also one more point I'd like to raise (and honestly I'm not trying to be difficult, I'm just a bit concerned and appreciate your help).... Having an SSD as C: is a good start. I would record it there, not the spinning-metal, sloppy, slow D:\. I agree that a SSD is more reliable than HDD, however I u...

So it sounds like what you guys are telling me is that I shouldn't trust Audacity for a job this big? Or at least I should trust my computer's hard drives? I should mention that I'm a musician and I have a DAW set up on this computer. I have quite a large setup using Cakewalk Sonar, with dozens and ...

Thanks Steve, I'm going to turn off Windows Update, and I'm creating an exception for my anti-virus scanner to NOT scan the folder that Audacity is writing the files to. (as well as making sure no scans are scheduled during the days of recording.)
I also have my laptop standing by as "plan b".

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I'm planning on recording long sessions with Audacity (something I've never tried before), I'm planning on recording the stream of the complete Woodstock festival from 1969 being streamed on XPN dot org. (3 days worth) I have 385 hrs of recording time (way mo...