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Had worked great, 'til broke down.
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:29 pm
by macp9
I had succesfully exported a lot of music from my old tapes using Audacity and had burnt many audio-CD's, but for about two weeks something got wrong with it. After several seconds (sometimes 20, sometimes 80) an unpleasant silent noise occurs and after a few next seconds Audacity stops recording with no info about a reason. I have reinstalled Audacity, cleaned registry, disabled net connection and antivirus program - nothing helped. And it shows that I still have remaining space for over 100 min. recording.
Could anybody help me? As far I was enjoing using Audacity and I can't understand what had happened.
Re: Had worked great, 'til broke down.
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:42 pm
by kozikowski
<<<I still have remaining space for over 100 min. recording.>>>
That's not always a good number to regard. When you do a Drive > Properties, does it say you have at least 10% of the space left? That is, you're not using more than 90% of the drive. 90% is the magic number where some systems start to act funny. They need lots of elbow room to do their work.
Have you ever defragmented your hard drive? Nothing will kill live audio (or video) faster on a Windows machine than have a drive with millions of little vacant spaces rather than one big space to put stuff. That's what fragmentation is. If you use your computer a lot for production, the system for filing stuff can get very intricate and complicated...and slow.
Live audio doesn't do slow. It either works or it doesn't.
You can have problems with viruses, too. Do you keep up with Windows Update and your virus protection software? You don't need the virus stuff if your machine never sees the internet, but most people aren't that lucky.
Koz