Audacity Continuing a Recording After Having Stopped and Listen to It

I have just started trying to record from turntable. It starts recording and I can hear it progressing then after a few minutes it just stops recording. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Post by **CharlieB** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:16 pm

I'm having this problem too

Occasionally it will make it to the end of a track, but usually the sound cuts out (seemingly random after anything between 15 seconds and just over a minute!) and the recording wave-graph stops, although the Stop and Pause buttons still remain active.....?

I've tried updating my sound card driver (C-Media A97) but it seems the version offered by the C-Media site is older than I already have!

Very frustrating.

Post by **steve** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:13 pm

Not enough information.
Are you using the USB input? What version of Audacity? What OS? Does the turntable stop playing? any other info that may be useful in diagnosing the problem?

Post by **merrimc** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:47 pm

I am using a USB connection. The turntable continues to work but nothing is being recorded. I have accidently found a way to make it continue recording but I don't know what I did or how to recreate it the next time I start Audacity. I think the connections are fine. It just seems audacity runs a sample. I guess so I can check that everything is working. I just cannot figure out how to make it stop doing the sample and actually record the whole album. I am using Audacity 1.2.4 which came with the turntable from *ion.

Post by **steve** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:59 pm

There have been a few frustrating issues with USB inputs, but the first thing you should do is grab a copy of "1.2.6 stable" or "1.3.4 beta" as 1.2.4 is way out of date. (you can install both 1.2.6 and 1.3.4 as long as they are installed in different directories, but you should only have one Audacity window open at a time.)

Post by **CharlieB** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:36 pm

I've tried different USB ports. Am running XP, and have downloaded and using the 'latest' 1.2.6 software. The (*ion) turntable keeps spinning, but the wave lines stop on the Audacity software and the progress line stops - yet the icons for Pause/Stop etc remain active.

This seems to be a recurring theme from a quick Google, what on earth is not happening! It has to be the software as if I plug it into the TV through the (ridiculously short) red/white phono leads then it plays fine continually!

Post by **waxcylinder** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:16 pm

My ION worked fine with both 1.2 and 1.3 - better with 1.3

When I first used Audacity, it did stop occasionally - but I followed advice from the forumn which was to:
1) make sure I had plenty of free discspace
2) defragged the disc (Windows user)
3) stopped as many background programs as possible.

Sometimes people have found that anti-virus software stops Audacity, or causes gaps in recording. Try turning off your anti-virus software (but disconnect you puter from t'interweb first) - or set the anti-virus to ignore .aup and .au files.

But it is looking as though it may be your USB interface which is at fault.

WC

Post by **steve** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:21 pm

CharlieB wrote:This seems to be a recurring theme from a quick Google, what on earth is not happening! It has to be the software as if I plug it into the TV through the (ridiculously short) red/white phono leads then it plays fine continually!

It's not necessarily the software, in fact it probably isn't.
The output from the red/white phono leads is an analogue signal, a simple method of transmitting audio data that has had around 80 years of technical development. USB audio is a much newer, digital technology, based on a specification that was not originally intended to be used for audio data, but rather as a general purpose serial data port.

The way to test if the problem is with Audacity is to try recording from an analogue audio source (such as a conventional microphone). Audacity does not care where the audio data comes from - you just select the audio device hardware, and Audacity will record whatever audio data it receives from that device. If the audio device stops sending data, then Audacity will have nothing to record.

All manner of things can interrupt the flow of data from a USB port, the most common of which waxcylinder mentioned in the previous post. I've also known Windows to just loose connection with USB devices for no apparent reason. If the USB device is something like a camera that you are downloading your photographs from, it's not much of a problem - you just unplug it and plug it in again and away you go. However, loosing connectivity to an audio stream half way through a recording, even momentarily will completely mess up your recording.

Post by **merrimc** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:36 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.

Post by **steve** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:24 pm

There is no demo mode for Audacity - it is free, fully functional Open Source software.

merrimc wrote: It stops recording after 3 seconds, every time. Exactly 3 seconds.

merrimc wrote:then after a few minutes it just stops recording.

It is unlikely that anyone can give you will get an accurate response to help sort out your problem if you keep changing your mind about what the symptoms are.

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