Audacity Forum

Since users Turbofiat and FL Coast both report in this Forum thread that this errant behaviour occurs at the 10 second mark or so, I decided to do a little testing (based on earlier reports in the bug thread of excessive CPU usage by Timer Record - https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4...

One reason I installed Audacity was to record a radio program from 11 to 7 ... Turbofiat, are you recording from an FM Tuner feeding an external USB soundcard to feed the PC? Or are you recording a webstream? Reason I ask is that Gale Andrews wrote in the bug thread back in Feb 2016: Where we know ...

I tested Audacity on my Windows XP SP3 machine and it works with no problems at all. I made a 2 hour test clip and it's currently converting the file from .WAV to MP3 format right now. So it must be an issue with Windows 10. I've kind of been out if the loop for awhile but I remember with Windows 7...

Sorry no - see this related thread: viewtopic.php?f=46&t=98242

WC

I am having the same issue with Audacity 2.21 on a Windows 10 machine. The timer stops at 11 or 12 seconds while Audacity continues to record. Task Manager is the only way out. I have repeated the issue with varying timer lengths with the same results. This sounds like the moonphase bug that we kno...

Well I'm baffled I run a couple of W10 laptops and I cannot reproduce this at all - not on 2.1.3, the latest 2.2.1 released version nor the 2.2.2 alpha development test version. Testing done using you 3 minute test use case - all proceeded fpr the full 3 minutes and terminated properly. I also use t...

I have a shiny new(ish) Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch screen running 10.13.2 High Sierra

and I see no such flickering when I click and drag in the waveform to select audio - nor do I recall it doing so when I was running 10.12 Sierra

WC

Works fine for me on macOS 10.13.2 High Sierra

a) with a single project minimized
b) with multiple projects minimized

So no bug AFAICT

WC

Thanks for the link. Looks like I will have to part with a few dollars in order to save some effort and time. The sticky post has some suggested settings I will try. Much appreciated. .... Also, the recommended workflow ought to save me some time and trouble. Those settings are the ones I settled o...

To place a more formal stake-in-the-ground for this I have written a Proposal in the Audacity Wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Propo ... of_Project

WC