1.3.4 crashing at 1hr 28 min of audio capture?

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Is there a work around in the beta version for it crashing every time I reach 1hr28min of audio capture? I love the beta version features, but have run into this issue at least 5 times over the past 2 months as I work through our cassette collection... The last several times I ran into it, I have used roxio to do the capture and then edited it in 1.2 There has to be a better way.

This is where and what I run into. It happens every time at exactly this point.


I am not a audio geek, just know enough about computers to be dangerous I am slowly working through our 500+ cassette collection (2-4/day since the beginning of Dec.) and haven't had any other issues with it once I figured out what I was doing...

[waxcylinder]

Have you got enough free space on you hard drive for the project (and Audacity's temporary files)?

WC

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Good thought, and might have been a problem on my old computer, but 176gb free on the one I am using now ought to do it .

Any other thoughts? I am running vista on a hp intel core2 with 2046mb ram if that helps...

[waxcylinder]

You're not by any chance recording over an existing project that is 1hr28mins long are you? Rather than starting a new project?

Just a thought .....

Buy hey, isn't 1:28 enough for you C90 cassettes?

And yes I'd have thought that 176gig would be enough ......

WC

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It did it faster when I tried recording into/over an existing project (only tried once, learned my lesson), and crashed at the point when it would have been 128 minutes with the deleted part (so at 67minutes) or something. Yes, it should be enough for the 90 min cassettes, but I don't always catch the end. I have some cassettes of special events that are c120 and some of those are a bit longer...

The biggest chance I have of crashing it is when I miss the end, either the turn over or finish of the speaking... Is there a way to set the beta version to stop capturing when it has 60 sec. of quiet? Or when the tape clicks off?

[waxcylinder]

Is there a way to set the beta version to stop capturing when it has 60 sec. of quiet? Or when the tape clicks off?

Not when the silence occurs - but you should be able to use the timer record facility in 1.3 to terminate recording after a specified time. Simply go to Tracks>Timer Record and you will get a dialog box to control the timed recording. I use this feature successfully a lot - mainly to record radio programs off-air when I am not there, or asleep.

I'm still puzzled by your underlying problem of recording cut-out though - most curious .......

WC

[hedera]

I've been having this problem with 1.3.3 - I'm using Audacity on a Windows Vista laptop with a Presonus FirePod 1394, to record weekly rehearsals of our chorus for podcasting, and for 2 weeks in a row it just quit recording roughly an hour and a half into what's usually a 2 hour session. This was after at least a dozen flawless recording sessions. Actually, Audacity didn't crash - it was still running, but it wasn't recording, the Preferences menu was grayed out, and I couldn't get it to start recording again. So this may not be the same issue, but the timing sounds suspicious.

On advice from the only other person in the chorus who even knows how to plug the FirePod in, I did the two following things: turned off wireless networking on my laptop during the recording session, and made sure that my laptop's power management system was on the "high performance" setting in which it will never go into sleep mode if the laptop is plugged in. Last night with those settings I got the full 2 hours of recording. One thing I noticed after it quit last week was that the driver for the FirePod wasn't running on the laptop; my theory is currently that the laptop went into "sleep" mode (which only took 20 min. under my usual power setting) and lost the FirePod driver. This may be bogus; but if you're doing this on a laptop you might try those.

If you aren't doing this on a laptop I'm still interested in the answer to this.

[fredee]

I've seen this problem, too, on a desktop and 1.3.4 beta, capturing an internet stream, except it's at 1:27, not 1:28. See track 2 in the following image:



Why three tracks? I stopped the first track shortly into recording to adjust volume, and resumed recording, creating the second track. After I discovered the second track had stalled, I stopped and resumed recording, creating the third track.

Other sessions I've been able to record 5 hours straight on one track.