Newbie: Stops recording after a few minutes

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Re: Newbie: Stops recording after a few minutes

Post by merrimc » Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:09 am

I didn't change my mind about the symptoms. It starts recording and records fine for 3 seconds. After making several attemps and changing some settings, I could get it to record for several minutes...about a song and 1/2. Then after more changes it would finally record the whole album. I have no idea what I changed to get it to actually record. But it was definitely a hit and miss thing. Every time I started up Audacity it was the same thing.

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Re: Newbie: Stops recording after a few minutes

Post by kozikowski » Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:51 am

<<<I do not believe in my case it is a problem with the USB port. It stops recording after 3 seconds, every time. Exactly 3 seconds. There is something about the software that I am not understanding. It is like it is in demo mode.>>>

Billions of people have shown up all with similar symptoms--just different music times. We tell people on Macs and large deskside PCs to buy the little cable and adapter to transfer their work analog. As was pointed out above, the analog service works fine. The PC laptop people are out of luck because you need a Line-In for this to work and PC laptops typically don't have one of those.

Plug in the words "PC Deskside" for "Mac" in this thread.

Oh, and the Line-In in a lot of PC sound cards is blue and/or labeled with a bull's eye pointing in. You'll have to struggle with the Dreaded Windows Sound Panels, too.

http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... 8840#p8840

Koz

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