Current date and time in timeline

[padelis]

Our students and me, are involved in a school project using Audacity to record sound data. The project requires the association of sounds with specific date and time, so we need date and time to be present in timeline.
Is any way to do this?
Is it possible this feature to be added it the new version?
Could you suggest me another way to act?
(Until now, we note the current date and time of start recording and do little mathematics)

[kozikowski]

You join the list of people that really want a surveillance recorder. I don't think there is any provision to do this in Audacity. There are many more popular feature requests.

There is an expensive provision to record SMPTE television time code on one Audacity track while you're putting the show on the other. Then use a SMPTE player on the playback to tell you the time of day -- which can be derived down to the nearest 1/30 second in the US. It will not tell you which day unless you use some of the more exotic provisions of SMPTE.

http://www.ese-web.com/smpte.htm
http://www.ese-web.com/263.htm
http://www.ese-web.com/453.htm

One of the problems with using Audacity as a surveillance recorder is where are you going to get the time from? Most computer internal clocks are terrible and you need to be connected to the internet reliably to get download time.

Koz

[padelis]

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Koz

Thank for your time