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Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Win 7.1, Audacity v 2.06
This was running many moons ago but now it shows the incoming signal in the meters and in the audio track. However, it shoes only 6 seconds of wave form then the line is flattened and the next 6 seconds show. Time is passing on the track but even if I stop the “recording” the track is flat lined.

Any fix for this?

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If you’re recording music and the song starts adjusting its own volume, that could be Windows Enhanced Services.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#enhancements

Koz

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Nothing is recording, the audio level is strong all the time.
The meter is always indicating the presence of the signal.

Audio track shows up to 6 seconds of signal then it goes flat.
Lather Rinse Repeat…

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Audio track shows up to 6 seconds of signal then it goes flat.

You mean the blue waves go flat? You can get that if Audacity runs out of room to store the sound. Are you running out of drive space?

Win 7.1, Audacity v 2.06

Audacity 2.06 is a fake version. There is an Audacity 2.0.6.

You can upgrade to the latest Audacity 2.1.1 here.

http://audacityteam.org/download/windows

Koz

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2.0.6, my bad…
I have over 177G free on the drive reported when I hit “Save As” however, I do see that A is not reporting hours left of recording time.

I will upgrade to 2.1.1 and report back. Maybe just a reinstall will do it.

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You could have crossed permissions, too. 177GB, but Audacity doesn’t have permission to wrote to any of it.

Koz

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Look at Edit > Preferences… then the “Directories” section. Assuming you have not saved a project, that is where Audacity writes to. That directory needs write permissions and the drive that directory is on needs the space.

Gale

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Yep, I found it about 10 minutes before I read your post. It was a change in the Temp folder.
Seems to me that an error should have popped up, no?
Oh well, it is still a great program.

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Yes, and we have that on our radar, but throwing error message boxes from errors that appear in the log is harder than it might seem to be: http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437.


Gale