I want to start recording on Sat/ 6am and Sun/9am.

[Emerogork]

I did this 3 years ago using Microsoft Task Scheduler. Someone here showed how to do it
I had it running but somehow I smutched it up about a year ago and cannot seem to get it going again.
I would appreciate it if someone can help me get it going again.

[Trebor]

I did this 3 years ago using Microsoft Task Scheduler.
Someone here showed how to do it ...
I would appreciate it if someone can help me get it going again.

Your old posts on this subject, (mostly from 2014), can be seen via this link ...
http://forum.audacityteam.org/search.ph ... _id=154452

[Emerogork]

It is not a matter of having the code to start/stop Audacity. I have all of the original files.
I can even set up TS triggers.
Rather, how do I get the Task Scheduler top see/run the files?
Somehow it needs to know the name of the file to use.

[Trebor]

... how do I get the Task Scheduler top see/run the files?

It's been years since I last used Microsoft's Task Scheduler, (a horribly complicated thing IIRC).

Here's a link to the users manual ... https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... s.85).aspx

Whilst Audacity can record on a timer, it seems like overkill for that task.
There is software (apps) specifically-designed to record scheduled internet-radio ...
https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/[b]Inter ... Radio-apps[/b]

[Emerogork]

I am looking into the scheduler link.

Any of the apps suggested are themselves all over kill since I already have an online source Juke box designed.
All I need do is schedule Audacity to start recording.

[Emerogork]

"Whilst Audacity can record on a timer,"
Does this suggest that Audacity has this as a feature?
That would be smooth.....

[Emerogork]

OMG..... After all this struggle to do timed recordings using Windows Task Scheduler, it actually exists in Audacity.
Either I missed the discussion or no one mentioned it.

On a whim, I did a search for "Audacity Timer". I found a discussion dated 2012 that explained that there is a menu option specifically for that. (Transport/Record/ Timer)
Just a few intuitive selections and I set a recorder to start at 6am until 11pm to record a full day audio track. Mission accomplished.
Granted, I wanted to do something hourly but a single all-day recording certainly beats starting at Midnight to catch the 6am start time.

Now, how about an option to start multiple timers?

[waxcylinder]

OMG..... After all this struggle to do timed recordings using Windows Task Scheduler, it actually exists in Audacity.
Either I missed the discussion or no one mentioned it.

Well, it's been there a very long time in Audacity - I've been using it for 10 years or so

Th manual is always your friend: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/timer_record.html

Now, how about an option to start multiple timers?

There is a long-standing Feature Request for thar - would you like me to add your vote?

But don't hold your breath. the volunteer dev team is pretty small these days and TR is not a priority for any of them

WC

[Emerogork]

Yes, add my vote.

However, is the timer fully operational?

I ran a test record last night. I set it to start recording at 6am to stop at 7am.
It started at 6am and here at 9:30 it is still recording.
Record start date is valid, Duration is 1 hour.

I woke up at 6:30 and it looked as if it was scheduled to stop at 6:50.
When I looked again at 8:00 and it was still recording.

I could not use any method to stop it until I clicked to close the window when nothing could be saved.

I will try again today.

[waxcylinder]

This is longstanding moonphase bug #42: http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42

Mostly for me it works fine twice a week at least normally - only once in recent years has it failed fir me: http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42#c29

We are finding almost impossible to track this bug down as we can't get a reproducible set of steps to reproduce it.

Peter.