26 Sep
2014
26 Sep
'14
11:42 p.m.
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@ponderworthy.com<mailto:jeb@ponderworthy.com> |
(785)233-9977 | http://ponderworthy.com
26 Sep
26 Sep
11:48 p.m.
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(a)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
11:48 p.m.
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.
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27 Sep
27 Sep
12:13 a.m.
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:48:55 +0000
Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)linuxaudio.org> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 09:42:40PM +0000, Jonathan E
Brickman wrote:
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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Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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. 
1:08 a.m.
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(a)linuxaudio.org> wrote:
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 09:42:40PM +0000,
Jonathan E Brickman wrote:
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.
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. 
9:55 a.m.
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?
2.5 hours, 44.1KHz, and 4 bytes for sample (i.e. floating point)
require about 1.55G of disk space for 1 channel. (2.17G for 3.5h).
Is there enough space on your temporary directory?
(the default is /var/tmp/audacity-root).
10:11 a.m.
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 09:56:14 +0200
Tito Latini <tito.01beta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 09:42:40PM +0000, Jonathan E
Brickman wrote:
Maybe the WAV file size limit was reached? Wasn't that around 4GB?
WAV64 or somesuch is more sensible for long recording sessions.
Regards,
Philipp
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?
2.5 hours, 44.1KHz, and 4 bytes for sample (i.e. floating point)
require about 1.55G of disk space for 1 channel. (2.17G for 3.5h).
Is there enough space on your temporary directory?
(the default is /var/tmp/audacity-root).
3:05 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:10:58AM +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
Maybe the WAV file size limit was reached? Wasn't
that around 4GB?
WAV64 or somesuch is more sensible for long recording sessions.
4GB is the max-file-size in some file systems (fat32 is famous).
I don't think it is the case because Audacity writes multiple
BlockFile objects [1] in the temporary directory.
[1]
https://code.google.com/p/audacity/source/browse/audacity-src/trunk/src/Dir…
3:37 p.m.
Hi Jonathan.
I used QARecord from the ALSA modular suite:
http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/
It works with ALSA or Jack. in mono or multichannel.
It splits the recording in 2Gb files (can be adjusted).
The interface is simple, with VU meters.
For command line situations, there's arecord (man arecord).
It can record multichannel sessions in separate mono files,
and limit the recording time.
--
Marc
Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:42:40 +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?
Jonathan E. Brickman
Ponderworthy Music |
jeb@ponderworthy.com<mailto:jeb@ponderworthy.com> | (785)233-9977 |
http://ponderworthy.com
1 Oct
1 Oct
7:21 p.m.
WARNING: shameless plug ahead
On 9/26/14, Jonathan E Brickman <jeb(a)ponderworthy.com> 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?
I'ver recently written a small tool for this purpose. It's called
hrec, and just a couple of weeks ago I've fixed a bunch of problems
with it. It now works and looks a lot better than the first
iteration. Still lots of work ahead, but I personally use it
regularly for such situations.
It will eat space like crazy, because the recording is 32bit float --
default jack format, though if there's interest, I could add some
options to change the recording format to something more economical.
It's ecasound under the hood, so stability shouldn't be an issue.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hrec/
I would be very interested in hearing about your experience, and
whether it does the job for you. I don't mind being yelled at.
9:45 p.m.
Egor Sanin wrote:
WARNING: shameless plug ahead
I'ver recently written a small tool for this
purpose. It's called
hrec, and just a couple of weeks ago I've fixed a bunch of problems
with it. It now works and looks a lot better than the first
iteration. Still lots of work ahead, but I personally use it
regularly for such situations.
It will eat space like crazy, because the recording is 32bit float --
default jack format, though if there's interest, I could add some
options to change the recording format to something more economical.
It's ecasound under the hood, so stability shouldn't be an issue.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hrec/
Nama also attempts to provide
recording facilities using Ecasound.[1]
I would be very interested in hearing about your
experience, and
whether it does the job for you. I don't mind being yelled at.
A special-built tool can be quite helpful.
Best wishes,
Joel
1. https://freeshell.de/~bolangi/cgi1/nama.cgi/00home.html
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