We are trying to automate the starting of an audacity recording and hopefully the stopping and exporting to an mp3 file to a network drive. Currently we start and stop it manually and export it to mp3 manually. Not sure how we will do this in the future but for now I have a microsoft access app and hope to start and stop it from a button, using microsoft vba... Is this possible or should I do it another way or what do you think? Actually what kicks off the meeting is a WordPerfect macro, and from that I will put the start broadcast time in the database, and from that kick off the audacity recording however I can.... Is what I was thinnking.
Thanks,
Jerry in Montana
auto start and stop of recording
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Audacity 1.2.x is now obsolete. Please use the current Audacity 2.1.x version.
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Audacity 1.2.x is now obsolete. Please use the current Audacity 2.1.x version.
The final version of Audacity for Windows 98/ME is the legacy 2.0.0 version.
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Re: auto start and stop of recording
If you can get the programming to simulate keypresses, then I suppose you could sweet-talk Audacity into cooperating. 1.2.x, as I'm sure you already know, has no timers built-in.
Just remember when you export, you have to trap filenames so they don't step on each other or create file sequence damage. I have one capture program that exports files automatically using the date and time codes down to the second. That's not bulletproof, but it's pretty bullet resistant.
Koz
Just remember when you export, you have to trap filenames so they don't step on each other or create file sequence damage. I have one capture program that exports files automatically using the date and time codes down to the second. That's not bulletproof, but it's pretty bullet resistant.
Koz