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

[Benoît Rouits]

Le 26/09/2014 23:42, Jonathan E Brickman a écrit :
> 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?
>
> Jonathan E. Brickman
> Ponderworthy Music | jeb at ponderworthy.com | (785)233-9977 |
> http://ponderworthy.com
>

Hello,
If you are recording stereo only, timemachine (gtk, jack) or qjackrcd
(qt, jack) might be an option since they write a single wave on disk
on the fly and are simple. Maybe you can try ecasound for multitrack.
But i confess i didn't try them for 3.5 hours actually.
HTH,
- Ben