Radio station WXPN in broadcasting the entiere Woodstock concert in real time…supposedly 24 hours a day for 3 days…
I am recording it using Audacity 2.3.2…
So if I have 72 hours of recording with no breaks…it will be a HUGE file…
Does anyone think Audacity can handle a file this large…I guessing it will be maybe a Terabyte…maybe more…
Audacity records at 32-bits and there are 8-bits in a byte. So that’s 4 bytes per sample x 2 channels for stereo. And, typically 44,100 samples per second. That works-out to about 20MB per minute.
[u]What Is the Maximum Recording Length?[/u]
[u]This guy[/u] is planning the same thing!
DVDoug…seems about right…I record at a local club…gig lasts about 1.5 hours or so…and the files are usually about 1.6 Gb…so steady recording for 72 hours…I’m guessing 100 mb or more…
MUCH more - about 90 GB.
Steve…you’re right…I meant about 100 Gb not Mb…So after 17 hours it’s still recording…I had one break where it stopped for about 20 seconds then started recording again…no idea why…I have a 200 Mb download speed…more or less…but listening to it I’m getting a nice clean recording…
Trying to decide if I should keep it as WAV and later convert it to MP3…or just save the file as MP3…much smaller file to save…
Bottom of Audacity says Disk space remaining for recording…111 hours…so I should make it…
Neat thing is I’m getting artists and songs that do not appear on either of the 2 Woodstock albums…
WAV format has a 4GB limit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV#Limitations)
If you want to keep a lossless copy that is bigger than that, export as FLAC or RF64. (FLAC format is the same quality as WAV and RF64, but only about 60% of the file size).
Steve…Thanks…I can work with FLAC…thanks for letting me know…