recording level meter dies

[buckthorn]

I'm a new Audacity user. I'm recording a cassette from a nice AIWA tape deck to my Mac Pro. In Audacity I start recording after setting the recording level, and everyone looks normal for several minutes. And then the recording level meter goes silent. According to my Sound control panel, a sound signal is still coming in. Audacity seems to continue the recording process, and my initial playback check last night indicated that recording continues (I still need to verify this for myself -- I'm recording right now as I write this). Has anyone seen this, and can anyone explain this? It would be nice to see that recoding level meter doing what it's supposed to do.

I'm on a Mac Pro (early 2009) running OS X 10.5.7.

[kozikowski]

You totally need to confirm that an actual recording took place after the meters stopped. My guess is no. Just because you can still hear it means the monitoring pathway survived, not that you have a recording.

Koz

[buckthorn]

Yes, the recording did indeed take place. The entire cassette got recorded (came to about 1.2GB worth of data); I played it back in Audacity.

Somewhat similar to the recording level meters, the sound waves (or whatever you call the visual display of the sound in the lower sections of the window) seemed to come and go during playback. Sometimes they appeared, and then they would just disappear. Perhaps this is some sort of screen drawing bug(?), because the main functionality of the program seems unaffected.

Any ideas?

You totally need to confirm that an actual recording took place after the meters stopped. My guess is no. Just because you can still hear it means the monitoring pathway survived, not that you have a recording.

Koz

[kozikowski]

Are you Mac/Intel/Leopard?

Koz

[buckthorn]

Yes. Mac Pro (early 2009), OS X 10.5.7 (Leopard).

Are you Mac/Intel/Leopard?

Koz

[kozikowski]

There is no stable 1.2 for us with that machine combination. Download and install Audacity 1.3.7. I would probably take out 1.2.x first and don't forget to trash the preferences file. Be sure and write down any system changes you made. Most people end up at 44100, 16-bit, Stereo and that's not how Audacity 1.2 came out of the box.

Go > Home > Library > Applications Support > audacity Trash that whole folder.

Audacity 1.3 should ask you "English?" when you install it.

Koz