Audacity Forum

I theorize maybe something else is grabbing the soundcard device for playback and Audacity isn't able to handle this gracefully? It probably should not dump core on this, no? You may be onto something here. No, Audacity should not core dump on this, but there is a common problem of Audacity freezin...

davidm7 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:55 pm

To be fair usually it is getting at least several hours before crashing.

and to be fair, I've never attempted to make such a long recording, though I know that many Windows users do so regularly without problems.

Debugging is rather limited in release builds. Are you able to build applications from source code? If you are, then it may be worth building the current release version of Audacity (2.3.0) or the current development version (2.3.1). If the problem still occurs with a newer version, you would be abl...

When recording into a project that has not yet been saved, the audio data is written to Audacity's Temp folder.
Check where the Temp folder is located (look in "Edit menu > Preferences > Directories") and check the amount of space available in that location.

How do you know that it is 16-bit mono and not 2 x 8-bit little-endian?

For 16-bit PCM files, each sample value is represented as a 16 binary digits (1s and 0s). A "byte" is 8 bits, so 16-bits is 2 bytes. Example, a 16-bit number: 1100001100111100 The two "bytes" in this number are: 11000011 (the "big" byte, or "Most Significant Byte&q...

Maybe there's a reason to Play-at-speed at 1x that i'm not seeing. Like my "driving" analogy, no-one drives a car in neutral, but when you first get into a car to drive it, you may want to go forward, or may want reverse. Similarly, when I launch Audacity, I probably won't remember what s...

kozikowski wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:07 pm

Audiobook

That works. We'll make it into a simple word instead of a compound.

That's also what Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiobook

jayjayhutch wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:45 pm

when i try to open ableton

Is that what you meant to write?

In the Sounds settings, do you see a signal in the Input settings when the djm250mk2 is selected and the xdj700 is playing?
(ambient noise reduction should be off / NOT selected)