Audacity Forum

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

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