Audacity Forum

when recording, the indicator moves to 6 then stops, although it' still records. then after 40 seconds it jumps to 40 then moves in spurts. when i play back, it sounds alright, then after a minute it sounds like everything is in an echo chamber. never did this before.

I bet you never filled up your hard drive before, either. It doesn't actually have to be full. You can have heavy fragmentation and get the same effect.

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

That's a normal cause of problems like you have. There are abnormal ones, too, like your computer is serving {word rejected} to the internet as the same time you're trying to capture music. Can you see your network activity lights?

Virus Protection must be up to date and not too strong. If you just got a virus software update and it is now trying to inspect every disk write, that will reduce Audacity to trash.

Koz

thanks koz. i'll defrag right after this. i've been using audacity for a couple of years now and this is the first time i've had any trouble at all. i'm no where near full. i only record a few minutes of a backing track to jam over. all of my anti virus/ malware is up to date. i have norton, spybot, and malwarebytes. i run them regularly. i didn't notice if the light was on but i don't think so. it is flashing right now for a few seconds but it doesn't stay on. how can my computer distribute {word rejected}? in any event, last night after i posted, i was recording some stuff and it was working normally but the meter wasn't registering. just being curious, because i don't understand mostly all of the stuff associated with recording software except how to record the most rudimentary tracks, i went to audacity preferences and under spectrograms tried to uncheck "show the spectragram in grayscale". then the computer immediatly crashed with the blue screen and rebooted. i'm lost. i'll try some more recording and see what happens.