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How to troubleshoot recording stops after five minutes
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:56 pm
by LNordin
I have a problem where audacity will stop recording after 5 or 6 minutes.
I've read through the FAQ but haven't seen anything that applies to me.
The directory configured for temporary files has 7 GB of available space.
Is there a log to see what error occurred that stopped the recording?
I looked in Help > Diagnostics > Show Log but this doesn't have any errors.
I'm running Kubuntu 18.04.4 and Audacity v2.2.1.
Re: How to troubleshoot recording stops after five minutes
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:24 pm
by steve
What is your recording device?
Re: How to troubleshoot recording stops after five minutes
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 10:42 am
by LNordin
It is audio line in on a Dell PC. My choices are "default", "pulse" or "HDA Intel PCH: ALC3220 Analog (hw: 1,0)". My only choice for audio host is ALSA.
I just tried specifying HDA Intel but when I try to record most of the time it doesn't start.
I did notice that when I went to change the volume on KDE mixer that the recording stopped.
To fill in more standard information, I installed Ubuntu's version of Audacity.
Re: How to troubleshoot recording stops after five minutes
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 11:38 am
by steve
LNordin wrote: ↑Thu Apr 23, 2020 10:42 am
My choices are "default", "pulse" or "HDA Intel PCH: ALC3220 Analog (hw: 1,0)"
Is there no "(hw: 0,0)" option?
If you shut down all audio applications,
then kill the KDE mixer,
then run:
and then start Audacity,
do you get a "(hw: 0,0)" option?
Re: How to troubleshoot recording stops after five minutes
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 7:30 pm
by LNordin
No, there is no "(hw: 0,0)" option
Couldn't find a kmix process to kill.
Tried killing pulseaudio (pulseaudio -k) but it kept restarting.
Re: How to troubleshoot recording stops after five minutes
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:15 pm
by steve
What do you get from the command
(that's a lower case "L" at the end)
Re: How to troubleshoot recording stops after five minutes
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 11:50 am
by LNordin
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3220 Analog [ALC3220 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Re: How to troubleshoot recording stops after five minutes
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 1:19 pm
by steve
From your "aplay -l"
Your default device is the HDMI device. Do you use HDMI audio? Do you use HDMI audio as your default audio out?
Have you customised your audio system in some way?
Re: How to troubleshoot recording stops after five minutes
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:11 pm
by LNordin
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3220 Analog [ALC3220 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Re: How to troubleshoot recording stops after five minutes
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:59 pm
by LNordin
> Your default device is the HDMI device. Do you use HDMI audio? Do you use HDMI audio as your default audio out?
I don't use HDMI audio. The only connection is the analog line out (on of the back the PC) out to speakers and analog mic in (on the front of the PC).
My monitor connection is currently VGA but otherwise I use DisplayPort (which I think is video only).
> Have you customised your audio system in some way?
No. I don't think so. How can I tell?