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by jaqrah
Thu Sep 17, 2020 3:04 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: After X amount of Time, Audacity becomes unusable [SOLVED]
Replies: 13
Views: 498

Re: After X amount of Time, Audacity becomes unusable [Solved]

Just a shout out to Steve for all of his assistance! Thanks! With all of our brainstorming, I finally located the source of my issue. It appears there is a conflict between Audacity and Musicbee, both programs use WASAPI. To resolve conflict: Open Audacity>Open Musicbee>Play any track in Musicbee li...
by jaqrah
Wed Sep 02, 2020 10:44 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: After X amount of Time, Audacity becomes unusable [SOLVED]
Replies: 13
Views: 498

Re: After X amount of Time, Audacity becomes unusable

The update history does not reveal anything telling.

I am wondering if there is some other program that I am unaware of in the background that is accessing Windows WASAPI? Would two different programs cause a conflict?
by jaqrah
Wed Sep 02, 2020 5:21 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: After X amount of Time, Audacity becomes unusable [SOLVED]
Replies: 13
Views: 498

Re: After X amount of Time, Audacity becomes unusable

Eventually, one of the re-installs will take That doesn't make sense, unless there's a serious hardware fault, which is unlikely. Re-installing Audacity will overwrite all of Audacity's default files, except for the configuration files. The main configuration file is "audacity.cfg". This will be re...
by jaqrah
Tue Sep 01, 2020 5:11 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: After X amount of Time, Audacity becomes unusable [SOLVED]
Replies: 13
Views: 498

Re: After X amount of Time, Audacity becomes unusable

steve wrote:
Mon Aug 31, 2020 7:58 pm
jaqrah wrote:
Mon Aug 31, 2020 7:55 pm
And do all of my Audacity processing in a 32gb RAM drive.
How big are your Audacity projects?
Just a few hundred Mbs.

At my current settings, Disk Space Remaining For Recording: 96 hours and 16 minutes.

I don't think I am running out of space.
by jaqrah
Mon Aug 31, 2020 7:55 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: After X amount of Time, Audacity becomes unusable [SOLVED]
Replies: 13
Views: 498

Re: After X amount of Time, Audacity becomes unusable

Could something be checking for updates (such as Windows Update, or your anti-virus updating) or some other scheduled maintenance task? When it next happens, try looking in the Windows Task Manager to see if anything other than Audacity is using a noticeable amount of CPU, memory or disk activity. ...
by jaqrah
Mon Aug 31, 2020 12:15 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: After X amount of Time, Audacity becomes unusable [SOLVED]
Replies: 13
Views: 498

After X amount of Time, Audacity becomes unusable [SOLVED]

Windows 10 Pro Ver. 2004 OS Build 19041.450 Dell Precision 7810 Dual Xeon E5-2630 v3 @2.4 GHz 1. Thanks for this amazing piece of software. I have been using it for 2 months now and have logged about a couple hundred hours of use. The problem: I am using the program to record sound over my computer....