it's really a mess that your Audacity (or something else in your audio environment) is not working reliably. I often do longer recordings (up to 4 hours) from exterior analogue sources over my USB soundcard into Audacity and it works without any problems. Maybe you first better invest some efforts to make your Audacity working, it's worth it! good luck Susanne -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger