Time Remaining

[Boldr1k]

Hi
I have an iBook G4 and Audacity 1.2.5. I am still getting used to it and have recorded some of my Vinyl collection OK.
During recording I have noticed there is an alert showing at the bottom of the screen named "Remaining Recording Time". This feature has now reduced to less than 13 hours remaining. As I cannot find anywhere that I can alter or reset the time and my remaining vinyl collection will take me over the 13 hours, my question is, What Happens When the time gets to zero?

[kozikowski]

<<<What Happens When the time gets to zero?>>>

The world, as we know it, will end.

Or at least your world will. At that point, the hard drive inside your iBook will reach 100% and the System will freeze. Not Audacity, OS-X will halt and take your machine with it. It's not pretty when this happens and it's a little like the convenience lights in your car. when one of those comes on, you are about to be greatly inconvenienced.

You are using OS-X, right? Panther? Tiger?

If you are, then you're probably using the wrong Audacity. 1.2.5 is for the much newer Intel machines, not G4s.

You should be investigating one of the many roomy, external FireWire drives out there for your shows. I would personally get one that supported USB2 and FireWire. I say "one," but you should really have two, one to protect the other. If one hard drive stops spinning or fails, you don't want to flush hundreds of hours of capture work.

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-External- ... B0006FS1Z0

And don't forget to reformat Mac OS Extended, or you won't be able to put large files on there.

You are Exporting As WAV... to get sound files, right? Audacity Projects aren't sound files and you can't move them from machine to machine.

Koz

[waxcylinder]

You are Exporting As WAV... to get sound files, right? Audacity Projects aren't sound files and you can't move them from machine to machine.

Koz

As Koz says - and also once you have completed the final production of any Audacity project , exported it to WAV AND backed the WAV up - then you can recover the space taken up by the Audacity project.

When you Save an Audacity project as <project_name> it creates a number of things

1. a top level master project file called <project_name>.aup
2. a folder at the same filing level called <project_name_data>
3. and within the folder a sub-folder structure with lots of little .au files - segments of the recording (mainly audio clips - but a couple of then are graphics files)

You can delete the file <project_name>.aup and its associated folder <project_name_data> - you will likely have several of these projects by now - once you delete them you should see the Remaining Recording Time go up to a better level.

WC

[Boldr1k]

Hi Koz & WC
Thanks for frightening me to death and thanks to Audacity for giving me something free that has the potential to cost me an arm and a leg.
I'm using Tiger 10.4.11 and the Audacity disc says Version 1.4 although when I go "Get Info" on the Mac, it says 1.2.5??
I deleted some Audacity files last night and got back 3 + hours of time remaining.
I will investigate the external hard drive thing as well. I'm not much of an expert on computers in general but can get my head round things given enough time and a prod or two in the right direction. So now I'll have a go at the "how to" reformat Mac OS Extended.

Boldr1k

[kozikowski]

<<<thanks to Audacity for giving me something free that has the potential to cost me an arm and a leg.>>>

You're welcome. No good deed ever goes unpunished.

<<<I will investigate the external hard drive thing as well.>>>

It's not that hard. Once you get an external drive write back. I don't remember the steps in Disk Utilities, but I can look them up for you.

This morning I got my PowerBook back from AppleCare with a virgin OS-X install on it. It's an old laptop, but the hard drive is in First Birthday.

I restored last month's Disk Image from an External FireWire drive and I'm back in business--with a few missing emails. Many programs arrive in Disk Image format, but you can Image your whole System Drive as a file and then save the file in case your System Drive stops spinning which is what happened to me.

Koz

[Boldr1k]

Hi Koz

Did a bit of house keeping and got rid of some applications that I don't use, also old files and photos, that freed up an immense amount of hard drive space. The net result is I have now got over 50 hours of time remaining. Cool what?

I can now get on with some audio work until I get an external HD, might next week or the week after that.

Thanks for your input.

Boldr1k