[LAU] How-to for simple recording for 3.5 hours?

[Will Godfrey]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:48:55 +0000
Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 09:42:40PM +0000, Jonathan E Brickman wrote:
> 
> > Last Sunday I set up my laptop for a 3.5-hour recording session, Audacity crashed after 2.5 hours.  Anyone know why this might have occurred, what to do about it, whether Audacity is in fact best for simple recording?
> 
> Timemachine may fit the bill. I once used it to record the proceedings of 
> a conference. Started it at 9:30 and let it run unsupervised until 18:00
> or so. It did the job.

Another vote for Timemachine. I've not used it for very long runs, but found it
very lightweight, reliable and easy to use when transferring analogue tapes
into the computer. Once done I then used Audacity to find and cut to the track
boundaries. 

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