Audacity Forum

Great - tx!

Is there any way of verifying which block size Audacity is using? I couldn't see anything.

mr-b wrote:Is there any way of verifying which block size Audacity is using? I couldn't see anything.

Click Edit > Preferences: Directories to find out where the Audacity temporary folder is, then navigate to that folder in Explorer. You should be able to see that each .au file is 2 MB in size.


Gale

Good job I checked - modifying the shortcut by adding the blocksize option to the Comment field doesn't work (1MB .au files).

I discovered that you do need to put the option in the Target field but outside the quotes e.g.
"C:Program Files (x86)Audacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode)audacity.exe" -blocksize 2127800
This produces 2MB .au files.

Still can't get it to break again though ... (sigh)

mr-b wrote:Good job I checked - modifying the shortcut by adding the blocksize option to the Comment field doesn't work (1MB .au files).

I discovered that you do need to put the option in the Target field but outside the quotes e.g.
"C:Program Files (x86)Audacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode)audacity.exe" -blocksize 2127800
This produces 2MB .au files.

Thanks for the correction. My shortcut to Audacity (1.3.13) was quitting on Win 7 x64 straight after the Welcome Screen if I appended that parameter, which is why I thought the parameter should go in Comments. But it doesn't crash now when I delete the shortcut and recreate it. I agree on double-checking that putting the parameter in Comments has no effect.




Gale

It just happened again.

The interval between the playback flashes is now around 12s (running Audacity with the changed block size).
I excluded *.au files from Microsoft Security Essentials, but it made no difference (assuming that takes effect immediately).
Then I thought the next step was to disable the overdub function, but of course to do this I'd have to stop the recording which might clear the error situation anyway. So I stopped it but didn't change any prefs and then restarted append recording - the error was still happening. Then I stopped again but this time disabled overdub, and the issue went away.

Screenshots plus the recording are at http://rapidshare.com/files/407767019/A ... _error.rar.
The append starts at 8:41. Unfortunately the tape is rather screwed after the append point with lots of wow (it even made the deck stop) which makes it a little harder to hear any issues - in fact I can't hear any echoes at all. The tape is also by The Fall, which may throw some listening for musical "abnormalities".

So it looks as if the issue may just be confined to monitoring. Hopefully this experience helps the diagnosis a little rather then confuses it!