Audacity Forum

Help,

When I am recording a Tape from my tape player, Audacity stops recording around the 26 min mark.
Any ideas??

How much hard drive space do you have? Sound captures take up a lot of drive space in a hurry. Audacity won't work into a highly fragmented hard drive, either.

Defrag
-- Right Click Start > Explore > Right Click Local Drive C: > Properties (Used, Remaining) > Tools > Error Checking & Defragmentation

Audacity has a little note at the bottom of the frame telling you how much time you have left. I don't think it's there all the time, so you may have to wait for it. That's based just on space you have left. If it's fragmented space, it still may not work.

Koz

Hey Thanks,

i will defrag now and try again!

S

No Still didn't work after a successful defrag. This time it stoped at 27.5 mins. The tape is about 45 mins. Tons of space on my hard drive (89G).
Anyone any ideas??

Is this consistently at 26 minutes, or is it "on the hour", or is time before it stops variable?
Does Audacity appear to stop cleanly or crash?
Do you have power saving features (including screen savers) switched off?
Any other programs running, or in the background?

Screen Savers and Power Savers can be different and are settable in different parts of the control panel.

Audacity does its management based on a drive location posted in Preferences > Location (or Drives or Directories). Where do yours point?

There is also a setting in that panel to force Audacity to only use hardware memory, no hard drives. That will fill up pretty fast and abort a capture.