Audacity Forum

hi all,

Here is what im trying to do...ive bought a Audio Technica ATR4697 Omnidirectional Condenser Boundary Microphone the reason being is im having problems with my new neighbours..loud music, screaming swearing etc etc I am intending putting the mic into an old Rabbit hutch in my back garden close to the neighbours fence and backing onto the rear wall of my lounge and am going to plug the mic into a laptop

Ive been having a play with Audacity and am hoping I can somehow get it to do the following..I need it to be able to record 24/7 and be able to somehow look at the wave form for when the mic picks up noise, stop the record, go back and play, cut the clip, save it then be able to burn it do a dvdr but have it so it plays back with a date and time stamp..I am wondering if there is a way of doing this with audacity or if anyone has any ideas on software that can?

Thanks

Audacity is not a surveillance recorder and can become profoundly unstable with very long shows.

Audacity does not have rolling time and date stamps. The only way I ever found to do this is is with SMPTE Time Code which is a rolling time signal you can place on one of the Audacity sound tracks and put the show on the other. You need a time generator and another separate player.

http://www.ese-web.com/index.htm

Search SMPTE/EBU generators and readers.

But that still won't give you date.

You need a real surveillance recording system.

Koz

http://surveillance.software.informer.c ... -recorder/

If you get one to work and you're happy with it, post back and tell us. This is a dialog, not a help desk.

Koz