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

David david at kenpro.com.au
Fri Sep 26 23:08:04 UTC 2014


sox works a treat, in my experience


On 27/09/14 08:13, Will Godfrey wrote:
> 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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