Recording cassettes doesn't work

[L7QeGvjA*[email protected]]

It works!

Now there's just an issue with me having hundreds of dropouts. They're barely noticeable but still. How do I prevent those from happening?

[billw58]

First, make sure the USB device is connected directly to the Mac, not through a hub.

For the dropouts, look through the suggestions on this manual page.

-- Bill

[L7QeGvjA*[email protected]]

Well it's impossible to connect it directly to my Mac as it doesn't have any USB-A ports but at least it's not a hub with multiple ports.

I've now set buffer length to 0 and turned software playthrough off. (I have to leave auto-scroll on though as I need to know when to stop recording) That definitely helped but about an hour into the recording dropouts start to occur once again. I've got no other applications open, I don't use anti-virus software, Audacity is always in the foreground, I always install the latest updates and I've got a Core i9 processor and 32GB of RAM so that's not the issue either.

[billw58]

You can zoom out so that Audacity doesn't need to scroll but leave auto-scrolling on. You can still see when the recording ends. Try turning software playthrough back on. Buffer length of zero is weird. Try 20 to 50.

If dropouts occur after an hour, can you record in chunks of less than an hour?

When you create a new project, immediately save it to your usual location. This avoids using the temp directory.

The USB-C adapter shouldn't be an issue.

-- Bill

[L7QeGvjA*[email protected]]

I had a feeling that perhaps some of the background apps that Adobe forces down your throat (as you can't remove them from autostart) may consume some resources so I force quitted them in Activity Monitor which seems to have fixed the issue of dropouts. I still get them sometimes but only 1 or 2 in the very beginning before the audio starts kicking in so it doesn't matter there.

[billw58]

I had a feeling that perhaps some of the background apps that Adobe forces down your throat (as you can't remove them from autostart) may consume some resources so I force quitted them in Activity Monitor which seems to have fixed the issue of dropouts. I still get them sometimes but only 1 or 2 in the very beginning before the audio starts kicking in so it doesn't matter there.

Ah, don't we all love Adobe! (Not!)

Yes, I sometimes get a couple of dropouts detected at the very beginning of a recording. In some cases they are before time zero, which is weird.

-- Bill