Audacity Forum

Thanks for catching that error of mine that has obviously been habitual for several years now. ...it's not fun to get old.

Thanks, Steve. Yes, 16 bit 44Kbps mono .wav. Same as a music CD, except mono instead of stereo gives you twice as much time.

Some suggestions from someone who's been there:
(1) save as an Audacity project. I'm not aware of any size/time limitations on that format; OR
(2) save each track separately as WAV. At 44Kbps that gives you over 12.5 hours.

Agreed. But, I have had fairly good results with some of the really cheap equipment when my telephone had a MUTE button, that I used faithfully during anything from the other end of the conversation that I wanted to use in my recording. I have successfully re-created interviews this way by later re-...

Thank you for such great info! By my calculation, what Audacity did was write the lower 32-bits of the file size into the WAV fize size header: in round numbers, real file size is 7.5GB, or 7.5 billion (thousand million in U.K.) bytes. Lower 32 bits of 7.5 billion is 3.2 billion. At 10MB/minute for ...

This is on the former Canadian Radio Shack site, but it shows a wide price range of telephone recorders: http://www.thesourcecc.com/estore/category.aspx?language=en-CA&catalog=Online&category=Recorders&pagenum=1&sort=1 Depending where you are, you should be able to find a local retailer that handles...

Unfortunately, with what I'm doing -- historical recording of radio stations -- collectors really do want continuous recordings of 24 and more hours in length. In fact, recordings dating from as early as 1961 try to record a complete 24 hours of a radio station. Even the FCC was paying listeners to ...

I used Audacity to combine two stereo channels, each in their own .wav file, into a new stereo .wav file. Everything appeared to work correctly. But, when I tried to use the new .wav file, every media player that didn't crash or hang, and Audacity itself, thought the file was 5+ hours long, instead ...