I was using Audacity v2X with Timer Recordings to record 4 hours of last night Coast to Coast AM radio using the TuneIn app on my Windows 10 computer. It was working fine. I just updated to Audacity v3.2.4 a few days ago and now the Timer Recordings stop at 2 hours and 12 minutes for some reason.
I checked my free disk space and Audacity states there are over 52 hours of recording time on my SSD.
The TuneIn app is still running fine when I check the computer, but for some reason Audacity has stopped recording at the 2 hour 12 minute point.
I notice that the new v3.2.4 of Audacity uses .aup3 file instead of the v2X .aup directories.
The only add ons I have installed since updating Audacity are FFMpeg, but the problem with the Audacity recordings stopping on their own started before I installed FFMpeg.
Any other complaints about this issue of recordings stopping after 2 hours? Can I roll back or reinstall an old version of Audacity that worked?
I am continuing to troubleshoot this issue. I suspect it may be the TuneIn app that is timing out, stops live playing after 2 hours, which is causing Audacity to stop recording.
I am now leaning towards the TuneIn app being the problem because yesterday I attempted to record live radio off TuneIn and it would stop playing at random times even though I was able to verify that Audacity was still waiting for an input signal. TuneIn would stop play at anything from 45 minutes to an hour and a half, so the 2 hour 12 minute limit I thought I was seeing may not be true at all. Even though TuneIn displayed it was broadcasting live radio, there was no signal. I had to stop and restart TuneIn for the radio station to restart the broadcast. Audacity immediately started recording when the broadcast signal was reset.
Tonight, I am using a different radio internet app to see if the timer recording in Audacity captures the entire 4 hours of radio program. I’ll update this thread if/when I can verify that the problem was not Audacity. As of now, I think the problem is not with Audacity.
Also, I am checking my other Windows 10 settings like screen timeout, etc… Sometimes, with Windows, the answer might be some hidden issue that one never thinks of that is causing a problem.
Everything worked fine last night using a different internet radio app. Got all 4 hours of the program recorded. Appears that the TuneIn app was causing my problems with recordings cutting off half way and had nothing to do with Audacity.