Recording from line in stops

[corbins]

Hi,

This is my first post on this forum. I've Windows 8.1 and Audacity 2.0.4.
I'm busy with recording old cassettes and I'm using Audacity to do this.
It's very simple: connect the cassette decek with the line-in, press the record button in Audacity and the work starts.
However, it seems impossible to record the whole side of a cassette in a single sound track. Audacity stops recording after 10 seconds, 10 minutes, 3 minutes... The record button is then released. So, I've to rewind the cassette for a while an start recording again, in a different sound track.
This irritates me! I get about 10 sound tracks from a single side of a cassette. I've to search for overlaps, connect the different sound tracks to a single one.
Please, can anybody help me? Is there a way to get the whole side of the cassette in a single sound track?

Regards,

Cor

[kozikowski]

I would certainly start by updating to the current 2.0.6 Audacity.

http://audacityteam.org/download/windows

When it asks you if you want to do a fresh start, to delete all traces of the old program, say yes.

Koz

[corbins]

Hi Koz,

Thanks a lot for your advice.
I've complete uninstalled Audacity 2.0.4, manually removed the folder. After that, I installed Audacity 2.0.6.
However, the problem still exists. I've tried four times to record a tape. But all times, it stops after 1 to 3 minutes.
Do you or someone else have another advice?
Thanks in advance,

Cor

[steve]

If there is a time selection (see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/se ... olbar.html) then recording will (by default) stop at the end of the selection.
To ensure that there is no selection, click the "Skip to Start" button before you press the Record button.


I presume this is a stand-alone computer, not on a network?

Are you recording from a USB cassette player?

[corbins]

Hi Steve,

There's no selection. Indeed, it's a stand alone computer.
And I'm recording the line in, not from u USB cassette player. Is this necessary?

[steve]

I'm recording the line in, not from u USB cassette player. Is this necessary?

No, I'm just ruling out some of the most likely explanations for the problem.

When you say that it stops recording, do you mean, just as if you had clicked the stop button? (no error message, the recording just stops)

Are you doing anything else on the computer while the recording is taking place?
Does your computer go to sleep or hibernate?

[corbins]

Hi Steve!

It stops recording, the record button is released, just as if I clicked the stop button.
And the computer is not in sleep of hibernation. Audacity is the only program running.

[steve]

Audacity is the only program running.

And no-one is touching the computer, or keyboard or mouse once the recording has been started?

[corbins]

No, there's nobody using this computer or touching mouse or keyboard.
I click the record button, sit with folded arms, and after a few minutes (this varies) the recording stops. When it stops after, say, 3 minutes, I rewind, press record again and the second time it's possible 5 minutes are recorded.

There's also no relation between the moment the recording stops and the inpout level in db.

I've absolutely no idea what's the reason this happens.

[kozikowski]

I've absolutely no idea what's the reason this happens.

Neither do we.

Next time it stops, press the R key (to start recording again, immediately). We expect that action to start a second timeline underneath the first. I don't advocate doing that as an actual musical production tool, this is just for testing. What does it actually do?

You are approaching Magic Munchkin Land. A noisy USB connection on your keyboard is occasionally pressing the STOP button by itself, etc.

Koz