I’m running Audacity 2 on a XP, SP3 system. I have about 150 LP’s to convert. About every 6 or 8 records, Audacity crashes. It asks me to send a report to Microsoft, which I do not want to do. Is there anyone besides Microsoft who can read & interpret the error report?
When was the last time you defragmented your hard drive? Audacity will not manage live sound into a highly fragmented drive. Also do the error check while you’re in there.
Do you have enough room? Audio production scares some people how fast it eats drive space. Are you trying to do other jobs during capture? Do you have Skype running in the background? Windows Auto Update?
Are you actually running Audacity 2.0? Help > About (I think) on Windows?
Koz
Thanks for your reply. I defrag on a frequent basis, and HD shows over 100 hours capacity. Ironically, I had a crash just moments ago and here is the report:
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<MATCHING_FILE NAME="Modulesmod-script-pipe.dll" SIZE="10240" CHECKSUM="0x493B38D0" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x8B94" LINKER_VERSION="0x0" LINK_DATE="12/07/2011 23:31:14" UPTO_LINK_DATE="12/07/2011 23:31:14" />
<MATCHING_FILE NAME="Plug-Insgverb_1216.dll" SIZE="102400" CHECKSUM="0x11AC7927" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0" LINK_DATE="09/26/2006 00:28:39" UPTO_LINK_DATE="09/26/2006 00:28:39" />
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</EXE>
<EXE NAME="kernel32.dll" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_THISFILEONLY">
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</EXE>
</DATABASE>
Does it mean anything to you?
The report does not seem to say much other than what files were running at the time of the crash.
Is your XP system fully updated? It may be worth checking Windows/Microsoft Update.
The error log is for Audacity 1.3.14. Are you super sure you’re running Audacity 2? It might be legacy internal modules, but maybe not.
Do you stop Audacity dead between captures, or [X] out the current capture waveform and start a new one? Or do you leave them all posted in the timeline.
This is where you start filling out the picture. USB Turntable? Which one? Type of computer? It’s not unusual to have USB problems cause machine insanity. Six or eight records is too long to have memory or obvious system problems. Hmmm.
Koz
Actually, at the moment, I am running 1.3.14. I had crashes with 2.0, so I reverted back to 1.3.14 to see if 2.0 was my problem, which obviously it is not. I am not using a USB turntable, but rather a USB mixer interface (Pyle Pad10MXU) fed by a standard turntable with audio outs. I record one side of the LP, save it to a wave file, close Audacity using X in upper right corner, and start a new session for side 2, etc., etc. My machine is an HP laptop, DV6648SE, Intel GM965 Express Family chipset, IntelCore2 Duo, 2 @ 1.5 GHz, 4 GHz RAM, RealTek High Definition Audio on motherboard
Sorry, meant to add about my computer: Windows Professional XP, SP3