Recording dropouts

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I am using Windows 7 64 bit and Audacity 2.0.5.
I am new to Audacity. I have been recording radio streams off the internet. After several minutes I will start getting audio dropouts and as the time goes on they become very consistent, every 7 seconds or so.
Thanks

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If you are getting small little fragments of the recording missing, there could be a number of fixes for that. See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#skips .

If blocks of audio six seconds long keep completely disappearing, choose Edit > Preferences, then “Directories” on the left. Make sure you have permission to write to the Audacity temporary directory listed there and that it has sufficient free space.


Gale

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For clairifacation, I am getting 1/4 second dropouts ever 6 seconds and only after 30 minutes of perfect recording. Problem something with my computer. Thanks for the reply

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USB recording devices can do that especially if you don’t plug them into a spare USB port, but do we assume you are using stereo mix of your computer to record?


Gale

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Sorry but I am new to Audacity and writing to forums. I am trying to record the audio stream from a local LA based radio station on my laptop computer. I am only using the soundcard that is built into the motherboard. The stream starts out okay, no drop offs, but after 45 minutes the stream had 1/4 second drop offs.
Thanks

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Thanks. We still don’t know how you are recording that stream. What input do you select in Audacity’s Device Toolbar ?

Are you listening to the streams - are you are sure the problem is in the recording?

If so, do you have a Screen Saver coming on and have you tried disabling it?

Have you tested using http://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml ?


Gale