Record never stops...

Hello,

I use Audacity 2.2.2 on an old (but free!) computer running W7 to record birds migration during the night :
-I set up Audacity to start/stop recording at the hours I choose (22:00 to 06:00)
-I choose “shutdown the system when finish”
-when it starts, a “stopwatch” begin, showing the time spent and the remaining time

It worked well, but since a few days, a problem has appeared…
-the record never stops by itself
-the “stopwatch” count 10s, and nothing else, even if 10 hours has spent, and the record continues, continues, …

I’ve tried to erase and reinstall Audacity 2.2.2 : no result… Can’t install Audacity 3. because a .dll couldn’t be found…

Could someone help me ?

Cheers,
Hervé

I cannot replicate this on W10 with 3.0.5 or the latest 3.1.0 alpha test build I have.

Test was a 10 second Timer Record.

And on Monday evening I used Timer Record for a 2 hour 15 minute recording while I was out and that too stopped just fine.

Are you sure that you did not extend the date range - i’e make a much longer TR than you thought you had? I have had problems with the time tumblers like that in the past - now I check very carefully …

Peter

And it also works fine for me with Audacity 2.2.2 (which is now a very old version)

Peter.

Hello !

Yes, you’re right : I had also some pb with the time tumblers, and I check them every time.
All was working fine before (since 3 months) : the pb appears just a few days ago.
Furthermore, I have setted up another computer (the same), with exactly the same outlines (OS, hardware and software) : it works nice since 8 months.

I guess Audacity isn’t in fault, but I don’t find what could be…?

Actually I think Audacity could be improved - I wrote this ptoposal in the Audacity Wiki five years ago:

but sadly no developer has had the time to pick this up.

I may add this to GitHub as an enhancement issue to give it some more focus.

Peter.

Logged on GitHub

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1869
The Timer Record TimeText controls do not interact intuitively with the Date controls. #1869

Peter.

Hello,
=> Yes, what you note is real and need to be improve : I had some pb sometimes with spinboxes too.
=> But in the case I report, date+hour are checked and they are the good ones : Audacity just seems not to “count” the time, so it doesn’t stop.